Clinch

to hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another

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Seize

to fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp

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grab

take or grasp suddenly

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clasp

grasp firmly

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follow

grasp the meaning

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clench, clinch

hold in a tight grasp

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clench, clinch

hold in a tight grasp

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snatch, snatch up, snap

to grasp hastily or eagerly

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snatch, snatch up, snap

to grasp hastily or eagerly

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snatch, snatch up, snap

to grasp hastily or eagerly

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intuit

know or grasp by intuition or feeling

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catch, get

grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of

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catch, get

grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of

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elusiveness

the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down

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hooklike, hooked

having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

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hooklike, hooked

having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

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elusive, subtle

difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

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elusive, subtle

difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

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tentacle

something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold

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fondle

To grasp.

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fathom

Grasp, envelopment, control.

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gripe

To seize, grasp.

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ahold

a hold, grip, grasp

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take hold

to grasp, seize

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clutches

Grasp; possession; control.

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snatch

To grasp quickly.

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undernim

To seize; catch; grasp.

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snatch

To grasp and remove quickly.

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squeeze

A hug or other affectionate grasp

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clutch

To grip or grasp tightly.

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hold on

To grasp or grip firmly.

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hang on

To hold, grasp, or grip.

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clasp

An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.

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take

To grasp with the hands.

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hold someones hand

To grasp or hold a person's hand.

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chokehold

A strong and powerful grasp on something

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catch on

to begin to understand; = grasp

— Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

shake hands

To grasp another person's hands in a greeting.

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comprehend

to understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

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Griff

grasp; reach

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Qraspine

of Grasp

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Grasper

of Grasp

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Gripple

a grasp; a gripe

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befang

To lay hold on; seize; grasp; catch; clutch.

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Vice

a gripe or grasp

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Graspless

without a grasp; relaxed

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unhold

To unhand, release from one's grasp, let go of.

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pick

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

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Grab

a sudden grasp or seizure

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Catch

act of seizing; a grasp

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semiliterate

Not entirely literate; having a limited grasp of the written language

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take someones point

To grasp the essential meaning of what a person is saying.

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microgripper

A microscopic device used to grasp and manipulate microscale objects safely

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subtle

Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable.

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Gripe

grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch

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Prehensory

adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile

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Impalm

to grasp with or hold in the hand

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Handfast

hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping

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Seizure

retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership

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Grip

an energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping

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miss the point

To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance.

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have a handle on

To be in control; to understand or grasp.

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handful

As much as the hand will grasp or contain. - Joseph Addison

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perspicacity

The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.

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seize upon

To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.

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Handygripe

seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting

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hent

To take hold of, to grasp.

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pick up

To lift; to grasp and raise.

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forceps delivery

delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal; since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries

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Prehensile

adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey

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monodactylous

Having a single digit on each limb, especially a single claw that can be used to grasp

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jack of all trades, master of none

A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one.

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trichocyst

A threadlike organ in certain protozoans that can be discharged suddenly in order to grasp or sting

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oversit

to grasp, comprehend; to understand

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clasp

To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.

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Handful

as much as the hand will grasp or contain

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take to

To adapt to; to learn, grasp or master.

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Relax

to become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax

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understanding

Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.

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sprachgefu00FChl

(rare) the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language

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sprachgefuhl

(rare) the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language

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Short

limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory

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Sprachgefu00FChl

the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language

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obfuscation

A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.

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semiliteracy

The state of not being fully literate, or having an imperfect grasp of the written language

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Gripe

that on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword

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latch on

To grasp firmly; to become attached to.

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snatch the pebble

To fully grasp the meaning of a concept or developed a skill to a high degree of proficiency, often that rivals some specific expert.

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Engrasp

to grasp; to grip

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hend

To take hold of; to grasp, hold.

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pick up

To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand.

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Elusive

tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious

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Grasp

reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp

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Grasp

to effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive

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seize upon

To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously.

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Clasp

to inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace

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Clutch

to reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at

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Clutch

a gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp

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Knurl

to provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill

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key into

To grasp; to understand the overall concept of or be acutely aware of the underlying and essential meaning of something. To get it.

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Beclap

to catch; to grasp; to insnare

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Grip

to give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe

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Clamp

one of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising

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Comprehend

to take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand

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Catch

to lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball

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Seizure

the act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

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let go

To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.

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Take

in an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey

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Hold

to cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain

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Clinch

the act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch

— Webster Dictionary

Hold

the act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay

— Webster Dictionary

reach

To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.

— Wiktionary

Reach

to attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear

— Webster Dictionary

Tantalus

a Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them

— Webster Dictionary

Boscawen, Edward

a British admiral, known from his fearlessness as "Old Dreadnought"; distinguished himself in engagements at Puerto Bello, Cathagena, Cape Finisterre, and the Bay of Lagos, where, after a "sea hunt" of 24 hours, he wrecked and ruined a fine French fleet, eager to elude his grasp (1711-1761).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Honorius, Flavius

emperor of the West, born at Constantinople, son of Theodosius the Great, a weak ruler, and only able to resist the invasion of the Goths so long as Stilicho, his minister, lived, for after the murder of the latter by treachery matters with him went from bad to worse, and he saw some of his finest provinces snatched from his grasp (384-423).

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Mesopotamia

the name given after Alexander the Great's time to the territory "between the rivers" Euphrates and Tigris, stretching from Babylonia NW. to the Armenian mountains; under irrigation it was very fertile, but is now little cultivated; once the scene of high civilisation when Nineveh ruled it; it passed from Assyrian hands successively to Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, and Arab; now, after many vicissitudes, it is in the deathly grasp of Turkish rule.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Richelieu, Armand-Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de

born in Paris, of a noble family; was minister of Louis XIII., and one of the greatest statesmen France ever had; from his installation as Prime Minister in 1624 he set himself to the achievement of a threefold purpose, and rested not till he accomplished it—the ruin of the Protestants as a political party, the curtailment of the power of the nobles, and the humiliation of the House of Austria in the councils of Europe; his administration was signalised by reforms in finance, in the army, and in legislation; as the historian Thierry has said of him, "He left nothing undone that could be done by statesmanship for the social amelioration of the country; he had a mind of the most comprehensive grasp, and a genius for the minutest details of administration"; he was a patron of letters, and the founder of the French Academy (1585-1642).

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Ruge, Arnold

a German philosophical and political writer, born at Bergen (Rügen); showed a philosophic bent at Jena; was implicated in the political schemes of the Burschenschaft (q. v.), and was imprisoned for six years; taught for some years in Halle University, but got into trouble through the radical tone of his writings in the Halle Review (founded by himself and another), and went to Paris; was prominent during the political agitation of 1848, and subsequently sought refuge in London, where for a short time he acted in consort with Mazzini and others; retired to Brighton, and ultimately received a pension from the Prussian Government; his numerous plays, novels, translations, &c., including a lengthy autobiography, reveal a mind scarcely gifted enough to grasp firmly and deeply the complicated problems of sociology and politics; is characterised by Dr. Stirling as the "bold and brilliant Ruge"; began, he says, as an expounder of Hegel, and "finished off as translator into German of that 'hollow make-believe of windy conceit,' he calls it, Buckle's 'Civilisation in England'" (1802-1880).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Bos`suet, Jacques Bénigne

bishop of Meaux, born at Dijon, surnamed the "Eagle of Meaux," of the see of which he became bishop; one of the greatest of French pulpit orators, and one of the ablest defenders of the doctrines of the Catholic Church; the great aim of his life the conversion of Protestants back to the Catholic faith; took a leading part in establishing the rights of the Gallican clergy, or rather of the Crown, as against the claims of the Pope; proved himself more a time-server than a bold, outspoken champion of the truth; conceived a violent dislike to Madame Guyon, and to Fénélon for his defence of her and her Quietists; and he is not clear of the guilt of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; wrote largely; his "Discourse on Universal History" is on approved lines, and the first attempt at a philosophy of history; his Funeral Orations are monuments of the most sublime eloquence; while his "Politique founded on Holy Scripture" is a defence of the divine right of kings. "Bossuet," says Professor Saintsbury, "was more of a speaker than a writer. His excellence lies in his wonderful survey and grasp of the subject, in the contagious enthusiasm and energy with which he attacks his point, and in his inexhaustible metaphors and comparisons.... Though he is always aiming at the sublime, he scarcely ever oversteps it, or falls into the bombastic or ridiculous.... The most unfortunate incident of his life was his controversy with Fénélon" (1627-1704).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

flame

[at MIT, orig. from the phrase flaming asshole]

1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke.

2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude.

3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people.

4. n. An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants “Now you're just flaming” or “Stop all that flamage!” to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).

The term may have been independently invented at several different places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of Virginia in the early 1960s.

It is possible that the hackish sense of ‘flame’ is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called “the fleminge of wrecches.” This phrase seems to have been intended in context as “that which puts the wretches to flight” but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as “the flaming of wretches” would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.

— The New Hacker's Dictionary

Stirling, James Hutchison

master in philosophy, born in Glasgow; bred to medicine and practised for a time in South Wales; went to Germany to study the recent developments in philosophy there, on his return to Scotland published, in 1863, his "Secret of Hegel: being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter," which has proved epoch-making, and has for motto the words of Hegel, "The Hidden Secret of the Universe is powerless to resist the might of thought! It must unclose before it, revealing to sight and bringing to enjoyment its riches and its depths." It is the work of a master-mind, as every one must feel who tackles to the study of it, and of one who has mastered the subject of it as not another in England, or perhaps even in Germany, has done. The grip he takes of it is marvellous and his exposition trenchant and clear. It was followed in 1881 by his "Text-book to Kant," an exposition which his "Secret" presupposes, and which he advised the students of it to expect, that they might be able to construe the entire Hegelian system from its root in Kant. It is not to the credit of his country that Dr. Stirling has never been elected to a chair in any of her universities, though it is understood that is due to the unenlightened state of mind of electoral bodies in regard to the Hegelian system and the prejudice against it, particularly among the clergy of the Church. He was, however, elected to be the first Gifford Lecturer in Edinburgh University, and his admirers have had to content themselves with that modicum of acknowledgment at last. He is the author of a critique on Sir William Hamilton's theory of perception, on Huxley's doctrine of protoplasm, and on Darwinianism, besides a translation of Schwegler's "History of Philosophy," with notes, a highly serviceable work. His answer to Huxley is crushing. He is the avowed enemy of the Aufklärung and of all knowledge that consists of mere Vorstellungen and does not grasp the ideas which they present; b. 1820.

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