1. An attribute of the cause expressed as an attribute of the effect.
Audax facinus.
Of yonder fleet a bold discovery make.
An impious mortal gave the daring wound.
———————— To my adventrous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar.
Paradise Lost.
2. An attribute of the effect expressed as an attribute of the cause.
Quos periisse ambos misera censebam in mari.
Plautus.
No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height.
Paradise Lost.
3. An effect expressed as an attribute of the cause.
Jovial wine, Giddy brink, Drowsy night, Musing
midnight, Panting height, Astonish’d thought,
Mournful gloom.
Casting a dim religious light.
Milton, Comus.
And the merry bells ring round,
And the jocund rebecks sound.
Milton, Allegro.
4. An attribute of a subject bestowed upon one of its parts or members.