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Again, a negative affix may mean having something in a small degree—e.g. stoneless— that is, having it in some rudimentary manner. Again, it may mean having it not easily or not well; e.g., uncutable means not only that which cannot be cut, but that which cannot be cut easily or well. And again, it may mean not having a thing at all; for it is not the one-eyed man, but the man who lacks sight in both eyes, who is called blind. Hence not every man is good or bad, moral or immoral; there is also the intermediate state.
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To have 〈or possess〉 is used in various senses. (a) To direct in accordance with one’s own nature or impulse; whence we say that fever possesses a man, and despots possess cities, and people who wear clothes possess them. (b) We speak of anything as having in which, as receptive material, something is present. E.g., the bronze has the shape of the statue, and the body has the disease.
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(c) In the sense that the container holds the contained; for when A is contained in B, we say that A is held by B. E.g., we say that the vessel holds the liquid, and the city holds men, and the ship holds sailors, and so too that the whole holds the parts.
