conatus

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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Moreover, within everything spiritual there is a conatus to clothe itself with a body.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

But let application of this be made to living conatus, and to living force, and to living motion.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

Humphredus Gilbert Eques, Americ� oras Hifpanis incognitas, magno animo & viribus, fucceffu non aequali noftris aperire conatus eft.

From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry

In the animals this conatus takes the form of appetite, in man of desire, which is “appetite with the consciousness of it.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various