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
A phrase like that of Clement of Alexandria, "deifying into apathy we become monadic," is seas away from anything we find in the speech of Jesus.
From The Jesus of History by Glover, T. R.
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)
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