precipient
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Definition of precipient
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Commanding; directing; willing.
“Identity, as applied to man, denotes strictly the same unchanged and unchangeable precipient unity, notwithstanding any diversity of modes or of relations as to time, place, or other objects, which it may have experienced.”
“The complete foothold of the mind in nature is represented by the pair of events, namely, the present duration which marks the 'when' of awareness and the percipient event which marks the 'where' of awareness and the 'how' of awareness.”
“But it is ineffective in respect of certain people who do not obey the precipient will.”
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adj
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Commanding; directing; willing.
“Identity, as applied to man, denotes strictly the same unchanged and unchangeable precipient unity, notwithstanding any diversity of modes or of relations as to time, place, or other objects, which it may have experienced.”
“The complete foothold of the mind in nature is represented by the pair of events, namely, the present duration which marks the 'when' of awareness and the percipient event which marks the 'where' of awareness and the 'how' of awareness.”
“But it is ineffective in respect of certain people who do not obey the precipient will.”
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Perceiving or perceived; pertaining to or capable of observation or sensation.
“Total embolism of the left artery; organic disease of the heart; retention of a small island of precipient retina; treatment by deep massage with slight improvement .”
“Against this, however, I have the precipient testimony of trained observers: Trooper Ranger , Officer Albrecht, Sgt. Prock, who observed these individuals .”
“Compensation for a percipient witness in such situations is governed by statute, as with any other nonexpert witness.”
“However, it can be developed if you find a precipient brain, that is, one specially tuned in to inner induction. Many were tested, I among them. Well, so I turned out to be an exceptional precipient.”
noun
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One who wills or has consciousness.
“The mind itself, the self-conscious precipient, the only real existence in the constitution of man, is placed beyond the reach of human observation; an those who resolve the thinking principle into a convolution of organic fibres like the brain, might as well suppose the thinking power of the Almighty spirit to consist only in the organizing system of the visible universe.”
“Nor can the elements of the phenomenal world derive any complexity from the interaction of the noumenal elements which they represent with the complex structure of the precipients.”
“Both matter and motion are stated to be 'phenomena of percipients' ^([sic]), and to be derived (not by considering abstractly an aspect of a plurality of simple substances, but) from the harmony of precipients with themselves at different times, and with other precipients.”
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One who perceives, especially one who is particularly sensitive.
“One precipient has heard the shouts and screams of a riot and felt the rush of spirits as they flee to the north side of the plaza ,”
“However, it can be developed if you find a precipient brain, that is, one specially tuned in to inner induction. Many were tested, I among them. Well, so I turned out to be an exceptional precipient.”
“In order to attain absolute prevision the precipient must be able to function consciously in maximally-dimensional space.”
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Etymology
From Latin praecipiens. See precept.
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