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ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARTICLE (from See also:Lat. articulus, a See also:joint)  , a See also:term primarily for that which connects two parts together, and so transferred to the parts thus joined; thus the word is used of the See also:separate clauses or heads in contracts, See also:treaties or statutes and the like; of a See also:literary See also:composition on some specific subject in a periodical; or of particular commodities, as in " articles of See also:trade and See also:commerce." It appears also in the phrase " in the See also:article of See also:death " to translate in articulo mortis, at the moment of death . In See also:grammar the term is used of the adjectives which See also:state the ex-tension of a substantive, i.e. the number of individuals to which a name applies; the indefinite article denoting one or any of a particular class, the definite denoting a particular member of a class .

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