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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

  1. 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.
      ‘Attempts to measure the circle’.