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Matter [with Natural Philosophers]
Matter [with Natural Philosophers] is a solid, divisible and passive substance, call’d body, and first principle of natural
things; which is extended intl length, breadth and thickness; which is capable of
putting on all manner of forms, and of moving according to all manner of directions
and degrees of swiftness.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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