Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Diametral; pertaining to the principal axes of a body or figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.
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- adjective Of or relating to
dimensions orlimits .
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Examples
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Now quantity is twofold, namely dimensive and virtual.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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He is really present in the Eucharist, but His real presence is not dimensive.
Bohemian thoughts... 2009
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He distinguished between being in place by “contact of dimensive quantity, as bodies are, [and] contact of power” (S.T. I, 8, 2, ad 1).
Omnipresence Wierenga, Edward 2009
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On this subject Sharpe seems to accept the essentials of Aquinas™ doctrine, since he affirms that (i) the universal-man is compounded of both common matter and form and that (ii) matter as affected by dimensive quantity and other accidental properties (materia quanta et accidentibus substrata) is the very principle of individuation, since it causes the passage from the level of universals to that of singulars (ibid., pp. 137-39).
Johannes Sharpe Conti, Alessandro 2005
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Reply Obj. 1: Although no matter is there out of which a thing may be generated, nevertheless dimensive quantity supplies the place of matter, as stated above.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Nevertheless, since the substance of Christ's body is not really deprived of its dimensive quantity and its other accidents, hence it comes that by reason of real concomitance the whole dimensive quantity of Christ's body and all its other accidents are in this sacrament.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Reply Obj. 1: Charity is not subject to dimensive, but only to virtual quantity: and the latter depends not only on the number of objects, namely whether they be in greater number or of greater excellence, but also on the intensity of the act, namely whether a thing is loved more, or less; it is in this way that the virtual quantity of charity increases.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Objection 1: It seems that the whole dimensive quantity of Christ's body is not in this sacrament.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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And therefore dimensive quantity is the subject of the other accidents remaining in this sacrament, rather than conversely.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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But the dimensive quantity of the bread remains in this sacrament, as is evident to our senses.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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