Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Constituting the essence of a thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Quiddative.
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- adjective Alternative form of
quiddative .
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Examples
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Their being is their quidditative constitution, which also defines the effective possibility of access to actual existence: all essences, as thought of and therefore
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In Henry's lexicon, these two moments indicate respectively the exemplar, which is the divine idea, and the exemplatum (also called ideatum), which is an essence fully constituted in its quidditative content and so able to be placed in act.
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Cahors, yea and those of Bourdeaux in Brie, who would have bought them for the substantific quality of the elementary complexion, which is intronificated in the terrestreity of their quidditative nature, to extraneize the blasting mists and whirlwinds upon our vines, indeed not ours, but these round about us.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Cahors, yea and those of Bourdeaux in Brie, who would have bought them for the substantific quality of the elementary complexion, which is intronificated in the terrestreity of their quidditative nature, to extraneize the blasting mists and whirlwinds upon our vines, indeed not ours, but these round about us.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is a substance, not of itself as form, but reductively, as the quidditative act, as the material cause belongs to the same category in the sense of being a receptive potentiality.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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These three properties are the traditional quidditative definitions of God held by almost all of the world's leading religions.
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Festival days are holy both by dedication and consecration of them; and thus much the Bishop himself forbeareth not to say, (470) only he laboureth to plaster over his superstition with the untempered mortar of this quidditative distinction, that some things are holy by consecration of them to holy and mystical uses, (471) as water in baptism, &c., but other things are made holy by consecration of them to holy political uses.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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Brie, who would have bought them for the substantific quality of the elementary complexion, which is intronificated in the terrestreity of their quidditative nature, to extraneize the blasting mists and whirlwinds upon our vines, indeed not ours, but these round about us.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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The Lay of the Land is the third Frank Bascombe narration — Frank being the dreamy, sadly self-monitoring sportswriter of The Sportswriter,, and thereafter the less dreamy but still sadly self-monitoring real-estate broker of the Pulitzer Prize – winning Independence Day, a man at such a quidditative loss as to prompt his ex-wife to remark, Everything’s in quotes with you, Frank.
Out of Character Joseph O'Neil 2006
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The Lay of the Land is the third Frank Bascombe narration — Frank being the dreamy, sadly self-monitoring sportswriter of The Sportswriter,, and thereafter the less dreamy but still sadly self-monitoring real-estate broker of the Pulitzer Prize – winning Independence Day, a man at such a quidditative loss as to prompt his ex-wife to remark, Everything’s in quotes with you, Frank.
Out of Character Joseph O'Neil 2006
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