But the greater part of the book is occupied with an account of the funeral games in honour of Anchises, which, with modifications to suit the changed locality, reproduce the games which Achilles celebrated in honour of Patroclus.
He thus supplied the general plan which Virgil might follow, with modifications suited to his narrower range of subject and his more purely didactic office.
Many modifications of the word by prefixes, to its radix Edo, appear among the cognate dialects.
It is believed that sufficient examples of this rule, in all the modifications of inflection, have been given under the head of the substantive.
It is not, however, in all cases, by mere modificationsof the adjective, that these distinctions are expressed.
In the present case he has certainly failed to keep his own protege in office, and, what is more important, he has failed to secure any modifications in the system of government.
I have endeavoured to illustrate the various modifications of which the female character is susceptible, with their causes and results.
Several modifications followed, each the subject of patented improvements.
The feelings of mankind indeed have the same common source, but they must come to us through the medium and by the modifications of society.
The concetti of the Italian, the figurative style of the Persian, the swelling grandeur of the Spaniard, the classical correctness of the French, are allmodifications of genius, relatively true to each particular writer.
They also proposed somemodifications of the document, and referred it back, with these, to the Assembly (Sept.
By far the greater number of our rules of composition are not dictated by any physical law traceable in acoustics, but only by human taste, which is continually undergoing modifications in the course of time.
Many of those which appear to have originated during the Christian era are only modifications of older ones dating from heathen times.
The agreement by General Bates was made subject to confirmation by the President and to future modifications by the consent of the parties in interest.
But probably they may not obtain these in the first session, or with modifications only, and the nation must be left to ripen itself more for their unlimited adoption.
I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modifications of these, suited to the habits of all the States.
Yet I am in hopes the appeal to the sword will be avoided, and great modifications in the government be obtained, without bloodshed.
Obvious modifications admit of extension to an interval between a and a - k, or between a - k and a + k.
The notion thus introduced may be adapted by suitable modifications to continua of lower dimensions in Cn.
Indeed there is a great interchange of new varieties of plants between Europe and America, and modifications in systems of culture are being gradually introduced from one side of the Atlantic to the other.
Both pepo and hesperidium may be considered as modifications of the berry.
Other series of modificationsarise in which the tissues corresponding to the stroma invest the sporogenous hyphal ends, and thus enclose the spores, asci, basidia, &c.
Many modificationsin details occur, and the plants may be dioecious.
Renaissance architecture, as is well known, is the imitation of Roman or late Hellenistic art, with certain peculiarities and modifications forced upon the builders by their education and surroundings.
There is, next, a secondary use of the word essence, in which it signifies the point or ground of contra-distinction between two modifications of the same substance or subject.
A number of them after the first panic recaptured the failing demand by advertising very simple modifications of their ordinary supply.
This best studied case shows that a number of mutual relations are to be found between the properties of two modifications when once the phenomenon of mutual transformation is accessible.
Now these modifications show hardly any tendency to persist, the one stable at high temperatures being formed at elevated temperatures, but changing in the reverse sense on cooling.
The skeleton of man when examined minutely and compared with the skeletons of the higher order of animals, seems only a modification of them, and in some instances the modifications appear extremely slight.
The handles are of unusual shapes, consisting of modifications of the lip, as seen in the illustrations (Figs.
There may be flaws in it, but if there are they will be remedied, and if modifications are necessary to make it more perfect there is no doubt that such modifications will be agreed upon.
Though there are undeniable corruptions in detail belonging to the older period, the text maintained a remarkably high level of authenticity till such modifications as it had undergone reached their conclusion in the Samhita text.
Some importantmodifications in detail are, however, apparent.
As to the modifications and troubles which may arise in us, they derive from foreign elements, attached to the soul, as well as from passions experienced by the above described common part.
The most important of these modificationsis the abbreviation of the speech process involved in thinking.
As we have already seen, the typical course of this process may undergo endless modifications or transfers into equivalent systems without thereby losing its essential formal characteristics.
All the modifications so far considered are directly patterned on the typical process of normal speech.
The government as restored by Andrea Doria, with certain modifications tending to impart to it a more conservative character, remained unchanged until the outbreak of the French Revolution and the creation of the Ligurian republic.
Such adaptations are the transparency and colourlessness of the tissues, and the modifications of the foot, which still shows in Atlanta the form common in Pectinibranchia (compare fig.
Their present forms and structures are modificationsfrom the common forms possessed by their remote ancestors.
We are justified in welcoming changes and modifications which, after careful inquiry, seem clearly to promise betterment in the life of the group.
These modifications are, in the stricter forms of Darwinian evolution, explained in mechanical terms by the theory of the "survival of the fittest.
When habits are consciously acquired, they may be consciously transferred with modifications to situations slightly different from those in which they were first learned.
The printed word continually recalls the standard pronunciation and meaning, and the changes in language (save those deliberately introduced by the addition of scientific terms, or the official modifications of spelling, etc.
Any single activity of an average human being in a modern civilized community is compounded of so many modifications of original tendencies to action that these latter seem often altogether obliterated.
Footnote 1: The psychological tests used in the army, and being used now with modifications in the admission of students to Columbia College, are "general intelligence" tests.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modifications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
