And Mr. Boag, the Conative Meliorist, sits there by the hour.
I said, "You are referring now, I suppose, to Boag, the Conative Meliorist?
If you had no intention of assisting me'--the inceptive or conative imperfect (Woodcock 200).
This conative sense is much more commonly found with the imperfect than with the present; the only way it can be dispensed with in this passage is if cui is read and, as Professor R.
At Livy I 46 2 the word is used without the conative sense: 'neque ea res Tarquinio spem adfectandi regni minuit'.
Third, an efferent or conative part through which it gives rise to a characteristic type of conduct.
The conative use is not very common in old Latin, but more frequent from Cicero and Caesar on.
As we proceed still lower down the scale of animal life we find the conative element itself gradually dwindle away until nothing is left but mere reflex action.
In the notion of duty, the ethical import of which is identical with that of "ought," this conative element is not so obvious.
The conative causes of acts or forbearances are not equally interesting, and they are often hidden.
In contradistinction to mereconative impulses, they are expressions of a person's character, of his will.
The same is the case when the motive of an act is the conative element involved in an emotion.
For the altruistic sentiment is not merely willingness to sympathise; it is above all a conative {111} disposition to do good.
Closely connected with theconative nature of "ought" is the imperative character it is apt to assume.
All our experiences whether cognitive, emotional or conative exist in subconscious states and may under suitable conditions be reproduced as memory (sm.rti).
Apart from these the citta possesses volitional activity (ce.s.tâ) by which the conative senses are brought into relation to their objects.
Karmendriyâ.nyasya hayâ.h the conative senses are its horses.
It is an error to reduce all objects and all activities, all thinking beings and all objects of our thought, to mechanism and its products and by-products, thus explaining away the peculiar nature of man as a conative and cognitive being.
He totally ignores the existence and organisation of the conative side of the mind.
So that a developed individual self-consciousness never is and never can be a purely intellectual growth, but always involves a strong sentiment, a centering of emotional conative tendencies upon this object, the self.
So we may say that an enhancement of the conative powers, a greater control over the attention, are the chief marks of the Illuminative Way as perceived by the growing self.
The third Brook of Grace irrigates the conative powers of the self; strengthens the will in all perfection, and energises us anew.
Aristotle gives sensation a logical priority over the conative and emotional expression of "animal" life.
A feature which marks all the fighting, and which we cannot afford to disregard, is the conative aspect of the behaviour of the owner of the territory.
Considerations such as these lead to the belief that there must be some congenital basis to account for such persistent endeavour; the more so since it is difficult not to be impressed with the conative aspect of the male's behaviour.
Now it is impossible to observe the instinctive routine of the parents, when the young need attention, without being impressed with the conative aspect of their behaviour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
