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136 THE LEXICIDION.
Constitutive, is said of those things which help to frame, make, and build up ; from
constituo, of con and statuo.
Constitutive sides, the ingredient sides of a triangle.
Constructive parts, are those whereof a thing is built and framed ; from construe, con-
structum, to heap together, and build up, of con and strues.
Conterminall, is that which bordereth with, and joyneth to a thing ; of con and termi-
nus, vide Adjacent or Insident.
Cordes, and cordall, are said of subtenses metaphorically, because the arches and sub-
tenses are as the bow and string ; chorda comes of the Greek word x°ptyi intesti-
nuin, ilia, quia ex Mis chorda; conjiciuntur.
Correctangle, that is one which, with another rectangle, hath a common perpendicular.
Correspondent, that which answereth with, and hath a reference to another thing ; of
con and respondeo.
Cosinocosinall, is said of the concordances of loxogonosphericall moods agreeing, in
that the termes of their finall resolvers run upon co-sines.
Cosmography, is taken here for the science whereby is described the celestial globe :
of koV^o! and ojpuqiui.
Co-subtendent, is the subtendent of a correctangle, or that which, with another, is sub-
sterned to two right angles, made by the demission of one and the same perpendicular.
Co-verticall, is the fellow top angle, from whence the perpendicular falleth.
D.
Data, is said of the parts of a triangle which are given us, whether they be sides or
angles, or both ; of do, datum, dare.
Datimista, are those datas which are neither angles onely, nor sides onely, but
angles, and sides intermixedly ; of data and mista, from misceo.
Datangulary, is said of the concordances of those moods, for the obtaining of whose
prasnoscendas we have no other datas but angles, unto the foresaid moods common.
Datapurall, comes from datapura, which be those datas that are either meerly angles,
or meerly sides.
Datolaterall, is said of the concordances of those moods, for the obtaining of whose
praenoscendas the same sides serve for datas.
Datoqua>re, is the very problem it selfe, wherein two or three things are given, and a
third or fourth required, as by the composition of the word appears.
Datisterurgetick, is said of those moods which agree in the datas of the last work ; of
data, i'se/joj', postremum, and i/><yoi>, opus.
Demission, is a letting fall of the perpendicular ; from demitto, demissum.
Detcrminater, is the characteristick or figurative letter of a directory ; from determi-
nure, to prescribe and limit.