conari

For one thing, the word for which conari is substituted, tendere, can have similar connotations itself, carrying the sense of a try or an attempt.

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Recalling once again that the inertial tendency of bodies described in PCP IIp14 cannot, for Spinoza, be accounted for by appeal, in the manner of Descartes, to divine will, the substitution of “conari” for

Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

PCP IIp17's invocation of conari, if we read it in this active sense, signals an ongoing effort, a continuous directedness, in this case, at homeostasis.

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In coming upon the ground of English institutions, Salmasius necessarily began "verba nostra conari," and became the garrulous parrot that Milton represents him.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

"Puellæ patienti licet se vertere, et conari ut non recipiat semen, quod injuria ei immittitur; sed, exceptum, non licet expellere, quia jam possessionem pacificam habet, et haud absque injuriâ naturæ ejiceretur"

The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy

You used to say I was the one and only love in all the world for you and her. ubi quid dederam, quasi columbae pulli in ore ambae meo usque eratis, meo de studio studia erant vostra omnia, 210 usque adhaerebatis: quod ego iusseram, quod volueram faciebatis, quod nolebam ac votueram, de industria fugiebatis, neque conari id facere audebatis prius. nunc neque quid velim neque nolim facitis magni, pessumae.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Let not my statement that the Aetolians and Eleans are at war alarm you: engagements will take place off the stage yonder. nam hoc paene iniquomst, comico choragio conari desubito agere nos tragoediam. proin si quis pugnam expectat, litis contrahat: valentiorem nactus adversarium si erit, ego faciam ut pugnam inspectet non bonam, adeo ut spectare postea omnis oderit.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

[827] Augustine once (Ep.xxii. 4) remarks of the Carthaginian church in relation the churches of the province; “Si ab una ecclesia inchoanda est medicina [i.e., the suppression of an abuse], sicut videtur audaciae mutare conari quod Carthaginiensis ecclesia tenet, sic magnae impudentiae est velle servare quod Carthaginiensis ecclesia correxit.”

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

Strigel credited with the power of "endeavoring to assent, _conari assentiri, _" because he is endowed with a will.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

PCP IIp17 taken as involving “conari” in an active sense, then it must be taken to amount to the claim not just that bodies will not in fact change their state unless externally determined to do so, but also that even while external causes are acting on a body (e.g., the sling holding the stone in circular motion), the body's own impulse is at work actively endeavoring to determine it to move as it would in the absence of that external cause.

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