conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
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
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
The image of the Infinite in these forms is plain from their conatus and power to fill the spaces of the whole world, and even of many worlds, to infinity.
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
