An altered word is one in which part of the ordinary form is left unchanged, and part is re-cast; as in {delta epsilon xi iota-tau epsilon rho omicron nu / kappa alpha tau alpha / mu alpha zeta omicron nu}, {delta epsilon xi iota tau epsilon rho omicron nu} is for {delta epsilon xi iota omicron nu}.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

G ENERAL E XERCISES IN T ESTING H YPOTHETICAL , D ISJUNCTIVE AND D ILEMMATIC A RGUMENTS .
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

The baron took her by the hand, and stepping up to the gypsy woman, he said to her, in a tone which, in spite of all his efforts, betrayed his deep emotion: "Xenobia, is this child----" He could not continue; in vain he tried to utter the word.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

And folly differs from fatuity, according to the same authority (Etym. x), in that folly implies apathy in the heart and dullness in the senses, while fatuity denotes entire privation of the spiritual sense.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

2. Tanais dubius (?) Kr. hermaphrodite, magnified, showing the orifice of entrance ( x ) into the cavity overarched by the carapace, in which an appendage of the second pair of maxillæ ( f ) plays.
— from Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Müller

NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY 3617 10th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION v AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ix AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION x I. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS 1 II.
— from Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud

The most important points are: (1) The presence of the element x in the spermatogonia, closely associated with the nucleolus.
— from Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) by N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens

For instance, the principles of causality can be stated in the form 'Any known event X is to [Pg 269] some other event Y , whatever it be, as effect to cause'; so stated, it clearly informs us not of the character of Y but only of the fact that there must be a Y , i. e. a necessary antecedent, though at the same time this knowledge enables us to search in experience for the special character of Y .
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

EXPERIMENT X. In this experiment the arc was conveyed to the right auricle, and produced a considerable contraction, without the intervention of salt water, but especially in that part called the appendix auricularis: in the left auricle scarcely any action was exhibited.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini