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QUALITY

Volume 3 · 63 words · 1771 Edition

is defined by Mr Locke, to be the power in a subject of producing any idea in the mind. See METAPHYSICS.

Chemical Qualities, those qualities principally introduced by means of chemical experiments, as fumigation, amalgamation, cupellation, volatilization, precipitation, &c. See CHEMISTRY.

Quality is also used for a kind of title given to certain persons, in regard of their territories, signories, or other pretensions.