conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
Nequaquam enim mortem intentat matri, sed actione, quam non ipse sed corpus matris producit, conatur ad lucem pervenire, et iste conatus non nisi ex naturali concursu rerum fit matri causa mortis.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
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 Ager, John
It also follows that there is a conatus more interior, that is, the conatus to produce uses for the animal kingdom through vegetable growths, since by these animals of every kind are nourished.
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
