conatus
Example Sentences
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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
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
This conatus is afterwards continuous from the lands through the root even to outmosts, and from outmosts to firsts, wherein use itself is in its origin.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, 355.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
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
