MAJORITY

In Politics, the age at which the sover eign, in hereditary monarch capable of excrci sin;; supreme authority. See Minority. Rkobnt. If AJOR TERM, In Logic, is, in a syllogism, the predicate of the conclusion. The major premise is that which contains the major term. In hypothetical syllogisms, the hypothetical premise is called tin: major. MAJUBCULJS, or [s. 717]