† eminentialadj.
Mathematics. Obsolete. rare.
(See quot. 1796.)
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1736 in Bailey
1751 in Chambers
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Eminential equation, a term used by some algebraists, in the investigation of the areas of curvilineal figures, for a kind of assumed equation that contains another equation eminently, the latter being a particular case of the former.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
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1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 328 This action, therefore, actuates the Creature with a certain indivisibility that eminentially contains divisibility.
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- not to know someone from eve
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- not to know —— from shit
- not to lain
- not to lift a finger
- not to look at
- not to look at a person
- not to look back
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