nisus

• “nisus"; not even _struggle_, in the sense of _contention_, an endeavour an effort, a strain.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850

• “nisus' will, I think, be more profitably employed in enkindling meditation on holiness, and thirstings after the mind of Christ.”

  The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “Barfield believes in a nisus, a struggling to be born and to emerge into consciousness of the internal ordering principle by which a plant develops, an embryo develops, etc.”

  Order « Unknowing

• “And the effort of that nexus is, as Barfield likes to put it, a nisus — and a very useful word.”

  A Cold Shower « Unknowing

• “While our concerns surely be grounded in "abandonment, exposure, and vulnerability," it is worth staying awake to the evolutionary nisus that beckons.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “He insists that religious belief as a whole is not superstition, and that it is true so far as it is an expression of a ˜nisus to totality™ or a ˜move to wholeness.™”

  Fictionaut: My Recycled Soul

• “The following bird species occur in the Laurissilva forest: Accipiter nisus, Apus unicolor and Fringila coelebs maderensis.”

  Floresta Laurissilva da Madeira, Portugal

• “The attitude that words may be discarded -- indeed, that words have caducity at all -- is not salubriously abstergent, but reflects an agrestic nisus that all cultivated English speakers must eschew.”

  Archive 2008-10-01

• “The operation of a nisus perhaps needs the tension of a conflictsome scenario and hence, the actual hardly helps.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

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