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monadic

British  
/ mɒˈnædɪk /

adjective

  1. being or relating to a monad

  2. logic maths (of an operator, predicate, etc) having only a single argument place

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 Peter Mark Roget

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 C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater

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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