conatus

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

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 Ager, John

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

The first production from these earthy matters, while they were still new and in their simple state, was production of seed; the first conatus therein could not be any other.

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