conatus
Example Sentences
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It was a conatus, what physiologists call a nisus, a struggle in a very ambitious spark, or scintilla, to kindle into a fire.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
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 John Ager
And attraction, a kind of conatus accedendi, is the crown, according to the eighteenth century, of the series of secondary causes.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
Here, however, I choose to confirm them only by the conatus, forces and motions in dead and in living subjects.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
That this is so may still seem doubtful, because not illustrated by applications to sensible and perceptible things in nature; nevertheless, such is the progression of conatus, force, and motion into power.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
