absolute

• The most abstract of all pantheistic systems he described to be that of the Brahmans, as taught in the Vedas and Vedashta, and also at first by Schelling, viz., that the absolute is the first principle of all things; and this absolute is not to be conceived of as possessing any attribute at all—not even that of existence. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
• This temperature is defined as the absolute zero temperature. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• While I'm sure it's no bed of roses it is pretty typical for the absolute ***** part of a city to be on the fringe border, especially if it is militarized like that. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
• See Heyne's note Footnote 469: Τῆ is an old imperative from a root formed like according to Doric analogy.... In all cases it stands either quite absolute, that is, with the object understood, or the accusative belongs to a verb immediately following." —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• Pater is keen in pointing out the liberal and spendthrift weakness of Coleridge in his thirst for the absolute, his 'hunger for eternity,' and for his part he is content to set all his happiness, and all his mental energies, on a relative basis, on a valuation of the things of eternity under the form of time. —  Figures of Several Centuries

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