monad
Example Sentences
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Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lowest monad has a mouth and means for propagating its kind, which do not belong to the primitive ovum of any higher animal.
From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Francis Bowen
From angels and demons, the Rosacrusian would approach even to the Divinity; calculating the infinity by his geometry, he reveals the nature of the Divine Being, as “a pure monad, including in itself all numbers.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Thus, the human being is successively a monad, an a-vertebrated animal, an osseous fish, a turtle, a bird, a ruminant, a mammal, and lastly an infant Man.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
