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It is often wise to state your definitions with care, especially of terms which are at the bottom of your whole case. The definition from Bagchot on page 58 is a good example. Here is the beginning of an address by President Eliot, in 1896, on "A Wider Range of Electives in College Admission Requirements": As usual, it is necessary to define the subject a little.
Sometimes the definition proceeds by careful and specific limitation of the general signification of a word, as in the following example from Bagchot: I should say that except where it is explained to the contrary, I use the word "toleration" to mean toleration by law.
In practice, if you have a suspicion that a word may be taken in another sense than that you intend, the first thing to do is to define it to lay down as exactly as possible the cases which it is intended to cover on the present occasion, and the meaning it is to have in those cases. For good examples of this enlightened caution, see the definitions on pages 54-65, especially that from Bagchot.
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