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conduce KAWN-doos verb to influence, contribute to or lead toward a specific outcome 1734Alexander PopeAn Essay on ManIn the physical universe all things work together for good, although certain aspects of nature seem evil to man, and likewise in the moral universe all things, even man's passions and crimes conduce to the general good of the whole.1857Charlotte BronteThe ProfessorA lace-mender may make a good wife as well as a lady; but of course you have taken care to ascertain thoroughly that since she has not education, fortune or station, she is well furnished with such natural qualities as you think most likely to conduce to your happiness.1871PlatoGorgiasSOCRATES: And when we kill a man we kill him or exile him or despoil him of his goods, because, as we think, it will conduce to our good?1914John R. HutchinsonThe Press-Gang Afloat and AshoreThe exemption he otherwise enjoyed appears to have conduced not a little to the waterman's proverbial joviality.Labels: Alexander Pope, Charlotte Bronte, John R. Hutchinson, Plato
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gnomology no-MAW-law-gee noun a collection of sayings, aphorism, proverbs, short poems, maxims, or reflections 1871Plato PhaedrusSOCRATES: And there is also Polus, who has treasuries of diplasiology, and gnomology, and eikonology, and who teaches in them the names of which Licymnius made him a present; they were to give a polish.Labels: Plato
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nóesis no-EE-sis noun intellectual process; cognitive process 1835Charles Kingsley Alexandria and Her Schools Had he not mapped out all heaven and earth, things seen and unseen, with his entelechies, and energies, and dunameis, and put every created and uncreated thing henceforth into its proper place, from the ascidians and polypes of the sea to the virtues and the vices—yea, to that Great Deity and Prime Cause (which indeed was all things), Noesis Noeseon, 'the Thought of Thoughts,' whom he discovered by irrefragable processes of logic, and in whom the philosophers believe privately, leaving Serapis to the women and the sailors? 1871PlatoCratylusFor Athene we must turn to the allegorical interpreters of Homer, who make the name equivalent to theonoe, or possibly the word was originally ethonoe and signified moral intelligence (en ethei noesis).1913William TurnerThe Catholic EncyclopediaIn the 'Metaphysics' he takes the stand that the actual is of its nature antecedent to the potential, that consequently, before all matter, and all composition of matter and form, of potentiality and actuality, there must have existed a Being Who is pure actuality, and Whose life is self-contemplative thought (noesis noeseos).Labels: Charles Kingsley, Plato, William Turner
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