Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A monad; a monadiform infusorian.
  • noun [capitalized] The typical genus of Monadidæ. M. lens is an example.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under monad.

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  • noun a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive

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Examples

  • The proper signification of the word monas (as employed by Leibnitz) ought to relate to the simple, given immediately as simple substance (for example, in consciousness), and not as an element of the composite.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • Red-sugar-dusted breads in the shape of a woman lying with her arms crossed, called "monas," are also popular.

    NY Daily News ERICA PEARSON 2011

  • Bastian, the "monas" of O.F. Müller, the "bioplast" of Professor Beale, etc., are essentially one and the same thing, except in name.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • The range of apartments beyond this one brought very forcibly to my mind, the gloomy cells of a monas:

    Sporting Sketches 2002

  • Unit (monas) and Number (arithmos) 10.1 Background

    Aristotle and Mathematics Mendell, Henry 2004

  • Unit (monas) and Number (arithmos) 10.1 Background

    Aristotle and Mathematics Mendell, Henry 2004

  • The ideals of Citeaux, under Saint Bernard (d. 1153) were the focus of monas - ticism in the first half of the twelfth century.

    HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

  • [Greek: "Ou gar esti theou hae gaerus oude ho phthoggos, oude he lexis, oude to metron, alla taes yunaikos: ekeinos de monas tas phantasias paristaesi, kau phos en tae psuchae poiei pros to mellon."]

    Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 Various

  • Monad, the Man; the First Source, the unknown God (Bythos pleroma, ouk on theos, propator, monas, anthropos, proarche, hagnostos theos), or by whatever other name it might be called.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Being, God at the summit of the hierarchy; or is there but one reality (monas, hence monism), one All-God (pan-theos) of whom each individual is but a member or fragment (Substantialistic Pantheism), or else a force, or energy (Dynamic Pantheism)?

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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