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ATTRIBUTES

Volume 3 · 70 words · 1810 Edition

in Theology, the several qualities or perfections of the Divine nature.

in Logic, are the predicates of any subject, or what may be affirmed or denied of anything.

in Painting and Sculpture, are symbols added to several figures, to intimate their particular office and character. Thus the eagle is an attribute of Jupiter; a peacock, of Juno; a caduceus, of Mercury; a club, of Hercules; and a palm, of Victory.