entiret (entir)

[ brother. Blest is the maid and worthy to be blest Whose soul, entire by him she loves po est, Feels every vanity in fondne lost. Lord Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady. entirelyt, a. [ME. enterly; Beseechynge you ever with myn enterly hert. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 41. entirely (en-tir'li), adv . [Formerly also intire ly; en tirely lost. Thei kepen entierly the Com a unde ment of the Holy Book Alkaron, that God sente hem be his Me ager Machomet. Mandeville , Travels, p. 139. Euphrates, running, sinketh partly into the lakes of Chaldea, and falls not entirely into the Persian sea. Raleigh , [ entity + -at ive.] Pertaining to existence or entity: usually opposed to objective in the old sense of the latter word. Whether it [moral evil] has not some natural good for its subject, and so the entitative material act of sin be physically or morally good? Ellis , Knowledge of Divine Things (1811), p. 340. Entitative act, actuality, that which distinguishes existence, or being in actu, from being in power or in germ. Thus, the entitative material act of sin is the existence of sin considered as an outward event, not as sin. - Entitative being, real being, opposed to intentional or objective being, which is existence merely as an object of consciousne . - Entitative power, the power of becoming something; potential being. entitatively (en'ti-ta-tiv-li), adv . In trins i- cally; taken itself apart from extrinsic circum- stances. entitle (en-ti'tl), v . t . ; pret. and pp. entitled , ppr. entitling. [Formerly also intitle (also entitule , intitule , after mod. F. and ML.); tlen , entituler , F. intituler = Pr. in titular , entitular , entitolar = Sp. Pg. in titular = It. int i to lare, intitulare , give a title or name to, in , in, + titulus , a title: see title .] 1. To give a name or title to; affix a name or ap- pell at i on to; designate; denominate; name; call; dignify by a title or honorary appella- tion; style: as, the book is entitled "Commen- taries on the Laws of England"; an ambas- sad or is entitled "Your Excellency." That which in mean men we entitle patience. Shak . , Rich. II., i. 2. Some later writers. nelope. entitle this ancient fable, Pe Bacon, Fable of Pan. 2. To give a title, right, or claim to give a right to demand or receive; furnish with grounds for laying claim: as, his services entitle him to our respect. A Queen, who wears the crown of her forefathers, to which she is entitled by blood. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. viii. If he had birth and fortune to entitle him to match into such a family as ours, she knew no man she would sooner fix upon. Goldsmith , Vicar, iii. 31. To appropriate as by title; attribute or attach as by right. IMG:content-0547.png:[blocks in formation] Entitled in the cause, in law, having as a heading or caption the name of a cause or suit, to indicate that the paper so entitled is a proceeding therein. = Syn. 1. Το christen, dub. entitule (en-tit'ūl), v. t.; pret. and pp. entituled, ppr. entituling. [Formerly also intitule; Nor were any of the elder Prophets so entituled . Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 173. entity (en'ti-ti), n.; pl. entities (-tiz). [= F. ent ité = Sp. entidad = Pg. entidade = It. ent ità, Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 145. When first thou gav'st the promise of a man, When th' embrion spark of entity began. Hart . 2. An independent ens; a thing; a substance; an ontological chimera. As a concrete noun, it is chiefly used to expre the current notion of the mode of being attributed by scholastic metaphysicians to general natures and to formalities. Modern writers have generally said the schoolmen made entities of words, a judgment which seems to espouse the nominalistic side of the great dispute, although the writers who use this phrase are not decided nominalists. Such being the connection which by its a ociations gives the word entity its meaning, the latter is nece arily vague. The schools have of late much amused the world with a way they have got of referring all natural effects to certain entities that they call real qualities, and accordingly attribute to them a nature distinct from the modification of the matter they belong to, and in some cases separable from all matter whatsoever... Aristotle usually calls substances simply όντα , entities. Boyle , Origin of Forms (Works, 2d ed., III. 12, 16). The realists maintained that general names are the names of general things. Besides individual things, they recognised another kind of things, not individual, which they technically called second substances, or universals a parte rei. Over and above all individual men and women there was an entity called Man - Man in general, which inhered in the individual men and women, and communicated to them its e ence. J. S. Mill , Exam. of Hamilton, xvii. The scientific acceptance of laws and properties is quite as metaphysical as the scholastic acceptance of entities and quiddities; but the justification of the one set is their objective validity, i. e. their agreement with sensible experience; the illusorine of the other is their incapability of being resolved into sensible concretes. G. H. Lewes, Probs, of Life and Mind, I. i. § 62. There is scarcely a le dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Disraeli. The foremost men of the age accept the ether not as a vague dream, but as a real entity . Tyndall , Light and Elect., p. 125. Will is e entially a self-procreating, self-sustaining, spiritual entity, which owns no natural cause, obeys not law, and has no sort of affinity with matter. Maudsley, Body and Will, p. i. Actual entity, actual existence. - Determinative entity, the mode of existence of a singular thing in a definite time and place. Positive entity, hæcceity, as being that mode of existence by which a general nature is determined to be individual. - Quidditative entity, the mode of being of a general nature not determined to be individual. ento-. [Gr. έντο-, combining form of ἐντός (= L. int us ), within, inside, entobliquus (en-tob-li'kwus), n.; pl. entobliqui (-kwi). [NL.,