Latin

Noun

repraesentamen

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   • a 1731, Johannes Flender, 1731 fourth edition of Phosphorus philosophicus novissimus, seu logica contracta Claubergiana, p. 12 (via Google Books), column 1:

     sive, cogitatio, quæ est imago et repræsentamen ejus rei, quam concipimus, quô modô forma seu essentia ideae consistit in representatione rei; sive in eo, quòd sit rei repræsentamen

   • 1699, Johann Bernoulli, letter to Gottfried Leibniz, published in Leibniz's Mathematische Schriften, v. 3, letter XCV, p. 580 (via Google Books Halle edition of 1850)

     Si per similitudinem intelligas ideam ipsam seu repraesentamen, quo objectum menti sistitur tanquam in pictura, eam sane non exsibilant Cartesiani.

   • 1670, Benedict de (or Baruch) Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, p. 48 (via Google Books), and as reprinted in Opera quae supersunt onmia, v. 3, 1846, p. 66 (via Google Books)

     quod alicuius boni sint repraesentamina

   • 1780, in Hermannus Venema, Institutiones historiae ecclesiae..., Tomus IV p. 436 (via Google Books)

     sed sacrificii cruci repraesentamen et commemorationem

   • a 1716, Gottfried Leibniz, in Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Volume 2 (1879), see p. 215 (via Google Books)

     a quo nihil repraesentaminis possim tollere […]

   • 1831, Jacob Nieuwenhuis, Initia Philosophiae Logicae, 120 (via Google Books)

     Veritas logica est convenientia repraesentaminum nostrorum inter se et cum legibus cogitandi.

   • a 1676, Gisbertus Voetius, (Gijsbert Voet), in a selection Tractatus selecti de politica ecclesiastica (1885), p. 84 at foot of page (via Google Books)

     De repraesentamine Ecclesiae

   • 1756, Amadeo, De La Rive, in Logica ad usum studiosæ juventutis, p. 179 (via Google Books)

     ...pro rectis rerum repræsentaminibus habeant.

Descendants

• representamen

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “repraesentamen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• repraesentamen in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016