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142 THE LEXICIDION.
Potentia, is that wherein the force and whole result of another thing lies.
Power, is the square, quadrat, or product of a line extended upon it selfe, or of a
number in it selfe multiplied.
Powered, squared, quadrified.
Precept, document, from prcecipio, praceptwm.
Prcenoscenda, are the termes which must be knowne before we can attaine to the
knowledge of the maine quaesitas ; of pros and nosco.
Prcenoscendall, is said of the concordances of those moods, which agree in the same
praenoscendas.
Prcesection, praesectionall, is concerning the digit towards the left, whose cutting off
saveth the labour of subtracting the double or single radius.
Prascinded problems, are those speculative datoquaeres which are not applied to any
matter by way of practice.
Praisubservient, is said of those moods which in the first place we must make use of
for the explanation of others ; ofprce and subservio.
Prime, is said of the furthest cathetopposite, or angle at the base contained within the
triangle to be resolved.
Primifie the radius, is to put the radius in the first place ; primumque inter terminos
collocare proportionates.
Problem, Problemet, a question or datoquaere ; from wpoZaWouai, wide Trpo/iXi]^, pro-
spoitum objectaeulum.
Product, is the result, /actus, or operatu m of a multiplication ; from produco, productum.
Proportion, Proportionality, are the same as analogy and analogisme ; the first being
a likenesse of termes, the other of proportions.
Proposition, a proposed sentence, whether theorem or problem.
Prosiliencie, is a demission or falling of the perpendicular ; from prosilio, ex pro and
salio.
Proturgetick, is said of the first operation of every disergetick mood ; of irpunov and
ep^ov, the »£ being Attically contracted into ».
Q.
Quadrant, the fourth part of a circle.
Quadranting, the protracting of a sphericall side unto a quadrant.
Quadrat, a square, a. forma quadra*, the power or possibility of a line. Vide Power.
Quadrobiquadraquation, concerneth the square of the subtendent side, which is equall
to the biquadrat, or two squares of the ambients.
Quadrosubduction, is concerning the subtracting of the square of one of the ambients
from the square of the subtendent.
Qumsitas, the things demanded ; from quaro, qucesitum.
Quotient, is the result of a division ; from quoties, how many times.