Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of striking against; collision; concussion; shock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A driving or striking against; an appulse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A driving or striking against; an
appulse .
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Examples
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The ascension goes on in the soul through the power and appulsion in the wings, which are the intellect, or intellectual will upon which she naturally depends and through which she fixes her gaze toward God, as to the highest good, and primal truth, as to absolute goodness and beauty.
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574
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Then as to the natural powers, by means of which it is turned to the protection and government of matter, to which it allies itself, and by appulsion benefits and communicates of its perfection to inferior things, through the likeness which it has to the
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574
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