| 释义 |
‖ conatus|kəʊˈneɪtəs|
[L.; = effort, endeavour, impulse, f. cōnārī to endeavour.]
1. An effort, endeavour, striving.
1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. vi. 143 Conatus's toward the destruction or ruin of the person. 1836Chalmers Mor. Philos. Wks. V. 274 A conatus that can find no distinct object to rest upon.
2. transf. A force, impulse, or tendency simulating a human effort; a nisus.
1665Glanvill Scepsis Sc. xxiii, The conatus of the circling matter. 1672Wallis in Phil. Trans. VII. 5164 This force may be either that of Percussion..Or some Conatus or Endevour of its own. 1674Grew Anat. Plants iii. ii. i. §11 The Pith and other Parenchymous Parts of a Plant, upon the reception of Liquor, have always a Conatus to dilate themselves. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Conatus (in a Body of Motion) is that Disposition or Aptitude to go on in a Right-line, if not prevented by other Causes. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xiii. Wks. 1830 IV. 169 What blind conatus of nature should produce it in birds. 1885Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. i. ii. 343 The self-conserving conatus. |