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† emiˈnential, a. Math. Obs. rare.
[f. eminent a. + -ial.]
(See quot. 1796.)
1736in Bailey. 1751in Chambers. 1775in Ash. 1796Hutton Math. Dict., Eminential equation, a term used by some algebraists, in the investigation of the areas of curvilineal figures, for a kind of assumed equation that contains another equation eminently, the latter being a particular case of the former. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
Hence † emiˈnentially, Obs. rare; = eminently 4.
1656tr. Th. White's Peripatetical Institutions 328 This action, therefore, actuates the Creature with a certain indivisibility that eminentially contains divisibility. |