, Porima, in Geometry, a kind of easy lemma, or theorem so easily demonstrated, that it is almost self-evident: such, for example, as that a chord is wholly within the circle.—Porime stands opposed to Aporime, which denotes a proposition so difficult, as to be almost impossible to be demonstrated, or effected. Such as the quadrature of the circle, &c.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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