4. Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.

"Inclination is another word with which will is frequently confounded.

Thus, when the apothecary says, in Romeo and Juliet, —

My poverty, but not my will, consents; . . . Put this in any liquid

thing you will, And drink it off.

the word will is plainly used as, synonymous with inclination; not in

the strict logical sense, as the immediate antecedent of action. It is

with the same latitude that the word is used in common conversation,

when we speak of doing a thing which duty prescribes, against one's own

will; or when we speak of doing a thing willingly or unwillingly."

Stewart.

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