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Webster 1913 Edition
Conatus
‖
Co-na′tus
,Noun.
[L., fr.
conatus
, p. p. of conari
to attempt.] A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.
What
conatus
could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece? Paley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Conatus
CONATUS
,Noun.
1.
Effort; attempt.2.
The tendency of a body towards any point, or to pursue its course in the same line of direction.Definition 2024
conatûs
conatûs
See also: conatus
English
Noun
conatûs pl
- plural of conatus
- 1648 August, John Pell, “[Letter f]or the right Honourable Sr Charles Cavendysshe Knight &c // At my Lord Marquis of Newcastles lodgings in Roterdam” in John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: the mental world of an early modern mathematician (2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198564848), eds. Noel Malcolm & Jacqueline Stedall, page 512
- So that it seemes an infinite businesse to [>scan all] his conatûs Cyclometricas.⁹ [>For By that time that] we have done [>wth] this, We are in danger to have as much more to examine.
- ⁹ ‘Attempts to measure the circle’.
- 1648 August, John Pell, “[Letter f]or the right Honourable Sr Charles Cavendysshe Knight &c // At my Lord Marquis of Newcastles lodgings in Roterdam” in John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: the mental world of an early modern mathematician (2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198564848), eds. Noel Malcolm & Jacqueline Stedall, page 512