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monades

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[mon-uh-deez] / ˈmɒn əˌdiz /

noun

  1. plural of monas.


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"I will teach him," said the doctor, "the eight parts of speech, logic, astrology, pneumatics, what is meant by substance and accident, abstract and concrete, the doctrine of the monades, and the pre-established harmony."

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Wolff commenta l'ingénieux système de Leibnitz sur les monades, et noya dans un déluge de paroles, d'arguments, de corollaires, et de citations, quelques problèmes que Leibnitz avait jetées peut-être comme une amorce aux métaphysiciens.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

So 12 E. 1; 8 C. iv. inserts— Si super extremam nota sit monades dat eidem Quod contingat cum primo dimiabis Atque figura prior nuper fuerit mediando.

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert

His sapiens lectis, Epicurum quaerere frustra   Quales sint monades, qua fit inane, sinas.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

Les monades ont mis aux prises les métaphysiciens et les géomêtres d'Allemagne, et ils disputent encore sur la divisibilité de la matière.”

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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