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entitative, a. Metaph.|ˈɛntɪtətɪv|
[ad. med.L. entitātīvus, f. entitāt-em: see entity.]
1. Pertaining to the mere existence of anything. entitative act: transl. L. actus entitātīvus, a term used by the Scotists to denote ‘material’ as opposed to ‘formal’ or ‘quiditative’ actuality.
The word act in this phrase has its scholastic sense, ‘that which differentiates an ‘actual’ from a ‘potential’ existence’. Duns Scotus, differing from Aquinas, recognized two kinds of ‘act’, i.e. two senses or degrees in which a thing might be said to have ‘actual’ existence: in one sense it is ‘actual’ if it simply possesses the ‘matter’ by virtue of which it has any existence other than merely potential; in the other sense, it is actual only when it possesses the ‘form’ which gives it specific existence. Hence in the language of his disciples the entitative act is the ‘matter’ of an actually existing thing, while the formal act is its ‘form’; or, more accurately, they denote the possession of ‘matter’ and ‘form’ respectively.
[a1308Duns Scotus Sent. xi. iii. §11 Uno modo actus est differentia entis opposita potentiæ..Alio modo actus dicit habitudinem illam quam dicit forma ad informabile et ad totum cujus est. 1520Lychetus Comm. on Duns Scotus' Sent. ii. xii. §19 Sicut forma est actus formalis quia potest informare per receptionem ipsius, ita etiam materia est actus entitativus.] c1600Timon iv. iii. (1842) 66 Whether there be a man in the moone..which may have there really and intrinsecally an entitative acte and essence, besides a formall existence. 1628Bp. Hall Old Relig. 49 The bold Schooles dare say that the naturall and entitatiue value of the Workes of Christ was finite, though the morall value was infinite. c1630Jackson Creed vi. xi. Wks. VI. 116 There is more entitative goodness in being a man than in being a lion. 1743J. Ellis Knowl. Div. Th. iv. 289 Whether..the entitative material act of sin be physically or morally good? 1890Tablet 29 Nov. 860 The vexed question as to the entitative simplicity or not of the living principles of mere plants and brute animals. 1907Dublin Rev. July 188 St. Thomas, with all the Scholastics, maintained the absolute entitative distinction of God from creatures. 1909M. H. Dziewicki Wyclif's De Ente 243 The commission of sin as an entitative act.
2. Of the nature of an entity; having real existence.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 272 When a man mistakes a rope for a snake..the man's misconception, which is entitative, is the cause of his fear.
Hence ˈentitatively adv., in an entitative manner; as a mere existence.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 55 The whole act considered entitatively and naturally. 1696Lorimer Goodwin's Disc. vii. 135 There cannot be a Conditional Will in God, that is..subjectively, or entitatively Conditional. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., Peter, entitatively taken, is Peter, as a thing, a substance, a man, etc. without any regard to his being a lord, a husband, learned, etc. 1818in Todd; and in mod. Dicts. |