Note 56 — Chapter XXVII
Henry F. (Henry Francis) Brownson translation
Dialecticians understand by an equivocal term one which in different things has an entirely different meaning. They give as an example the term lion which is applied equivocally to an animal, or a constellation. Æquivoca sunt quorum nomen commune est, et ratio per nomen significata, simpliciter diversa, is the scholastic definition.