And qualities being the effects of light, heat, and motion, flowing upon, warming or penetrating bodies differently modified in various degrees, and the sensations thence produced in us, as those of colours, tastes, sounds and feeling, rather than any internal offences or properties of matter or substances, adjectives assert or express their subsistence as the attributes of various substances and things, as the following specimen of English adjectives shews. There are no adjectives terminating in b except _ib_, which signifies life to beings, as in glib _liquid_, and bib to _drink_; for ab, eb, ob, ub, signifying from or out of life, would be improper to express life to things, as descending upon, and penetrating them, so as to give them motion, growth, generation, and sensation. Nor is there any adjective terminating in the letter p, it being expressive only of the parts of matter, as divisor of a, e, o, and t. Ac, ec, ic, oc, uc, and their softer inflections, are expressive of the different modes of motion, as local, generative, and energic actions and their contraries, as in, weak, _our action_, black, _shut from the light_, slack and lag, _a low or earthly action_, meek, _a feminine action_, epic, _an action past_, like _the first action of light_, high, _man acting_, light, _its active property_, coasting, _acting along the edge or lower part of the possessions_, big, _a thing swoln with heat_, nigh, _acting in_, mock, _the motion of the cheek_, strong, _the property of the sun’s motion below_, much, _the upper parts_. Ad, ed, id, od, ud, signify an addition and division of qualities emanating on men, animals, and substances of earth and water, as in bad, _an earthly life_, broad, _an addition of country_, dead, _matter without the addition of quality_, sad, _a low addition or quality_, glad, _that of being high_, mad, _the addition of being dumb_, or, _a brute_, red, _a diminution of the colour of light_, aged, _a past or diminished action_, cold, _the passive quality of being deprived of the sun’s action_, blind, _deprived of animal light_, mid, _dividing the center of existence_, insipid, _a thing deprived of the internal taste_, arid, _the earth deprived_, calid, _deprived of a covering from the heat_, tid, _property diminished_, acid, _deprived of action_, acrid, _depraved action of fire_, wild, _deprived of volition_, odd, _deprived of or out of the circle of possession_, ward, _the spring or the division of man and woman_, rude, _the privation of truth_, crude, _a rude action_.