conatûs
English
Etymology
From the Latin cōnātūs, the nominative plural form of cōnātus.
Pronunciation
Noun
conatûs pl
- Plural form of conatus
- 1648 August, John Pell, “[Letter f]or the right Honourable Sr Charles Cavendysshe Knight &c // At my Lord Marquis of Newcastles lodgings in Roterdam” in John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: the mental world of an early modern mathematician (2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198564848), eds. Noel Malcolm & Jacqueline Stedall, page 512
- So that it seemes an infinite businesse to [>scan all] his conatûs Cyclometricas.⁹ [>For By that time that] we have done [>wth] this, We are in danger to have as much more to examine.
- ⁹ ‘Attempts to measure the circle’.
- 1648 August, John Pell, “[Letter f]or the right Honourable Sr Charles Cavendysshe Knight &c // At my Lord Marquis of Newcastles lodgings in Roterdam” in John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: the mental world of an early modern mathematician (2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198564848), eds. Noel Malcolm & Jacqueline Stedall, page 512