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else.Reid. Appetite is the will's solicitor, and the will is appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject.Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything.J. Edwards. The word "will," however, is not always used in this its proper acceptation, but is frequently substituted for "volition", as when I say that my hand mover in obedience to my will.Stewart. Thy will be done.Matt. vi. 10. Our prayers should be according to the will of God.Law. "Inclination is another word with which will is frequently confounded. Thus, when the apothecary says, in Romeo and Juliet, My poverty, but not my will, consents; . . . the word will is plainly used as, synonymous with inclination; not in the strict logical sense, as the immediate antecedent of action. It is with the same latitude that the word is used in common conversation, when we speak of doing a thing which duty prescribes, against one's own will; or when we speak of doing a thing willingly or unwillingly." Stewart. What's your will, good friar?Shak. The mariner hath his will.Coleridge. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies.Ps. xxvii. 12. Wills are written or nuncupative, that is, oral. See Nuncupative will, under Nuncupative. Will |
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