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Webster 1913 Edition
Schema
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Sche′ma
,Noun.
pl.
Schemata
(#)
, E. Schemas
(#)
. [G. See
Scheme
.] (Kantian Philos.)
An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind;
as, five dots in a line are a
. schema
of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema
of cause and effect