monadic
Britishadjective
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being or relating to a monad
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logic maths (of an operator, predicate, etc) having only a single argument place
Example Sentences
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This American premiere from the Polish company Teatr ZAR reflects — with the help of Anatolian monadic chants — on the annihilation of nearly 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
From New York Times • May 15, 2015
It inspires a tidy, monadic surge of ferocity or freedom, quickly passed over in novel or movie because the hawk isn’t embodied.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2013
Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean†, circumforaneous†; noctivagrant†, mundivagrant; locomotive. wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
They knew also that each of these orders of matter served as an Upâdhi or basis of manifestation for a great class of evolving monadic essence, and so they christened the essence "elemental".
From The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
Leibnitz came several times very near the truth, but defined the monadic evolution incorrectly and often greatly blundered.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
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