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"Section M, N, and O"

Coleridge.


2. Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental
phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology.


Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be
taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied
with mind.
Sir W. Hamilton.


Whether, after all,

A larger metaphysics might not help

Our physics.
Mrs. Browning.


||Me*taph"y*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?; after + &?; nature.] Change of form;
transformation.


Met"a*plasm (?), n. [L.
metaplasmus, Gr. &?;; &?; beyond, over + &?; to mold: cf. F.
métaplasme.] (Gram.) A change in the
letters or syllables of a word.


Met"a*plast (?), n. [See
Metaplasm.] (Gram.) A word having more than one
form of the root.


Met"a*pode (?), n. [NL.
metapodium, from Gr. &?; behind + &?;, dim. of
poy`s, podo`s, foot.] (Zoöl.)
The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and
Pteropoda.


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