middle term in English

noun
1
the term common to both premises of a syllogism.
In the latter, the syllogisms involved must have middle terms that are causes of the state of affairs which is to be demonstrated.

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1. Moreover, here once again there is a person in a high position as a middle term between the aristocrat and the musician who is justified in raising high hopes.

2. STRONGS NT 1167: δειλία δειλία, δειλίας, ἡ (δειλός), timidity, fearfullness, Cowardice: 2 Timothy 1:7.(Sophocles (Herodotus), Euripides, (Aristophanes), Thucydides, and subsequent writings.)[SYNONYMS: δειλία, φόβος, εὐλάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good

3. Whiteman evokes the Corporeal nature of plantation authority, since the elided middle term between obfuscate and obfusticate seems to be fustigate.: The lower world, the sublunar and Corporeal world of generation and decay, was created in time.: The Corporeal cannot act on the inCorporeal, nor the inCorporeal on the Corporeal.: Besides, it were folly to think to judge of inCorporeal things by