monas

American  

[mon-as, moh-nas] / ˈmɒn æs, ˈmoʊ næs /

noun

plural

monades

1. monad.

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monas British  

/ ˈməʊ-, ˈmɒnæs /

noun

1. another word for monad monad

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Etymology

Origin of monas

< Late Latin < Greek monás; monad

Example Sentences

At La Ronda, Patterson's life is monas tic.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is agreed that the "proligerous pellicle" of M. Pouchet, the "plastide particle" of Professor Bastian, the "monas" of O.F.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

The unity which sunders itself into the multiplicity of things may be called the monas monadum, each thing being a monas or self-existent, living being, a universe in itself.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

It can neither be compared with the microscopic organism classed once among polygastric infusoria, and now regarded as vegetable and ranked among algae; nor is it quite the monas of the Peripatetics.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

The world is the bicentral God, God the monocentral world, which is the same with the monas and dyas.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward