monadicadj.n.

1788 T. Taylor Diss. Platonic Doctr. Ideas in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. p. xiv The monadic, or that which is composed from certain units, they justly considered as nothing more than the image of essential number.

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 335 In this fatal life There is no real union. All things here Seem of monadic nature.

1858 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 16 758 So, too, we have the seven openings of the head, the three twin pairs of eyes, ears, and nostrils, with the monadic mouth to make the seventh.

1873 Contemp. Rev. 22 45 Personality, self-consciousness, and freedom of the will, is rather the power of breaking through the limits of relative monadic existence, of expanding into the infinite by consciousness and will.

1963 W. W. Lambert in S. Koch Psychol. VI. 177 Most studies in general experimental psychology are carried out in terms of a monadic rather than a dyadic character.

1992 Raritan Summer 8 To be tortured out of monadic self-containment into a self-identifying speech is to become the brutally authoritative voice that summons others into speech.

1897 C. S. Peirce in Monist 7 167 A non-relative name with a substantive verb, as ‘—is a man’,..has one blank; it is a monad, or monadic relative.

1921 W. E. Johnson Logic I. 203 The number of substantival references are respectively one, two, three and four, and the corresponding adjectives or propositions may be called monadic, diadic, triadic and tetradic.

1939 Mind 48 486 It appears sometimes to be assumed that the elementary statement must be monadic, i.e., must have the form of a one-termed predicate, ϕx.

1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior iii. 78 ‘Black’ is in this sense monadic... ‘Deer’ and ‘black’ are both monadic... But it would often be added that ‘deer’ designates an object and ‘black’ a quality of an object.

1965 G. E. Hughes & D. G. Londey Elements Formal Logic xxxix. 274 Such a schema might contain only monadic predicate variables (e.g. ‘fx ⊃ gy’).

1990 Jrnl. Logic & Computation 1 80 Expressibility in B2TL of the properties (a)–(e)..gives us an easy way to express there the monadic second-order predicate calculus with one dyadic predicate.

1966 C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. 197/2 Monadic operation, an operation on one operand, e.g., negation. (Synonymous with unary operation.)

1973 C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. iii. 104 Binary is also called diadic and unary is also called monadic.

1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. xxviii. 234 Unary operators such as the unary minus are also called monadic prefix operators.

1991 Byte Dec. 141 When you write APL code, you make maximum use of its symbols. Many symbols represent monadic as well as dyadic function.

1877 H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 12) I. 262 Potassium forms only one chloride, KCl, and is therefore univalent or monadic.

1907 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 79 573 As ammonium chloride..when vaporised, has a density corresponding to the formula NH₄Cl, it may be assumed that it..exists in solution at least largely in the monadic form.

1922 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 101 259 This one extra electron obviously occupies space outside the complete inert gas shell, and is doubtless the monadic valency link.

1907 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 79 531 Monadic gases of the type of helium and mercury would be more effective than the ordinary gases.

1934 Q. Rev. Biol. 9 300/1 The solvent water is most active when present in small amounts (as it is then present in the monadic form or in association as hydrol).