 Lambert of Auxerre is typical in describing the many aspects of a proposition which can produce ampliation or restriction. Some are natural, as when ‘rational’ restricts ‘animal’ to supposit only for men by being adjoined to it; other cases are ‘usualis’ – ‘use-governed’ in Maloney's translation (p. 278): when we say ‘The king is coming’, we are taken to mean the king of the country where we are, so ‘king’ is restricted to supposit only for that king. Some ampliation and restriction is effected by consignification, that is, by an aspect of a word – by the tense of the verb, or by the gender of an adjective: in ‘homo alba’, the feminine ending of ‘alba’ restricts ‘homo’ to supposit only for women, indeed, white women. Other ampliation and restriction is effected by the signification of words – as in the case of ‘rational animal’ just mentioned, or in ‘Socrates' donkey’, where the possessive restricts ‘donkey’ to supposit only for Socrates' donkeys.