conatus

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

M. Manlius, unde Gallos depulerat, inde ipse praecipitatus est, quia fortiter defensam libertatem nefarie opprimere conatus fuerat.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

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

Cuius omnes curse, cogitationes, conatus, hue fpeflant, haec verfant, in his inhaerent.

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

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