"Method" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In patent law. "Engine" and "method” mean the same thing, and may be the subject of a patent Method, properly speaking, is only placing several things, or performing several operations, in the most convenient order, but it may signify a con-trivance or device. Fessen. Pat. 127; Horn-blower v. Boulton, 8 Term R. 106
An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing
anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages;
a method of improving the mind.
Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or
classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement
peculiar to an individual.
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural
objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of
Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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The radicnl mending of this word appears to be that of a mark, style, or designation; a distinctive appellation; the …
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