Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rendering limited or finite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A limiting element or quality.
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Examples
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The eternally self-affirmant self-affirmed; the "I Am in that I Am," or the "I shall be that I will to be;" the Father; the relatively subjective, whose attribute is, the Holy One; whose definition is, the essential finific in the form of the infinite; 'dat sibi fines'.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Son, they are the energies of the finific; [Greek: pánta di 'autou egéneto -- kaì ek tou plaer'ómatos autou haemeis pántes elábomen.]
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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