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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
metaphysics . - Same as
met . and .
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“Hurr”; the Latin “ingenuus,” lit. freeborn; metaph. noble as opp. to a slave who is not expected to do great or good deeds.
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+ "Ontologiae sive metaph. generalis specimen" (5 editions, 1835-63);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Renouvier, Les dilemmes de la metaph. pure (Paris, 1891); Idem, Le personnalisme (1903); Ray, La Théorie de la physique (Paris, 1907);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Scott definitions: "poikilia = metaph: cunning; pleonexia = a disposition to take more than one's share; polupragmosunê = meddling."
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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"Hurr"; the Latin "ingenuus," lit. freeborn; metaph. noble as opp. to a slave who is not expected to do great or good deeds.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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However, there is some mixing of metaph ... richard mcenroe: Anybody willing to assert his her or its freedom o ...
Little Miss Attila Little Miss Attila 2010
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The place of mathematical objects is in our imagination, Syrianus suggests In metaph. 186, 17 “ 23, and the case is comparable to matter receiving form, except that matter “does not know what it is receiving, nor can it hold on to it,” whereas the imagination, when it receives the mathematical blueprint from above, holds on to it to some extent and acquires an understanding of it.
Syrianus Wildberg, Christian 2009
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Edit.ix. 255) = heel or ankle, metaph. for fortune, reputation: so the Arabs say the
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In fact Reality, as we know it, is nothing but a system of relations, for "the nature of mind is such that no knowledge can be acquired or expressed, and consequently no real existence conceived, except by means of relation and as a system of relations" (Renouvier, "Les dilemmes de la metaph.",
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Edit.ix. 255) = heel or ankle, metaph. for fortune, reputation: so the Arabs say the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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