1831 July 130 The grand secrets of Necessity and Free-will, of the mind's vital or non-vital dependence on matter.
1933 Sept. 278/1 It is, in fact, not an aposeme to frighten an enemy away..but an episeme, to distract attack from a vulnerable to a fortified or non-vital region.
1989 V. Shiva in J. Plant 86 Resource intensive industries disrupt essential ecological process... Often such destruction is caused by the resource demands of nonvital industrial products.