ABSTRACT
Virtue is an appellative by which a fictitious entity is wont to be designated. The entity signified by it having no superior genus, the term is not susceptible of what is commonly meant by a definition: viz. indication given of a generic appellative, within the import of which that of the term defined is comprehended, together with an indication of some property by which the thing so indicated is distinguished from all other things designated by the same generic appellative.
