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
Do not their amœboid spores and plasmodia ally them at once to the amœba and his congeners, to all the monad, rhizopodal world?
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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
The individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
