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conative, a. (and n.)|ˈkɒnətɪv|
[ad. L. type *cōnātīv-us, f. ppl. stem of cōnārī to endeavour.]
A. adj.
a. Philos. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, conation; exertive.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1859) II. xl. 186 This division of the phænomena of mind into the three great classes of the Cognitive Faculties—the Feelings, or capacities of Pleasure and Pain—and the Exertive or Conative Powers. Ibid. (1877) I. vii. 122 The phenomena of our Conative powers,—in other words..of Will and Desire.
b. Gram. Expressive of endeavour.
1875Whitney Life Lang. xii. 250 Representing the radical idea in a causative, a reflexive, an intensive, a conative form, and so on.
†B. n. Endeavour, striving. Obs. rare.
a1688Cudworth Treat. Free Will (1838) 31 Notwithstanding which, the hegemonic of the soul may, by conatives and endeavours, acquire, etc. |