precipient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precipients
Etymology: From Latin praecipiens. See precept.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1810 February, “Metaphysical Essays; containing the Principles and fundamental Objects of that Science. By Richard Kirwan”, in The Monthly Repertory of English Literature, volume 9, page 324:
text: 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.
ref: 1880, Frederick W. Frankland, “On the Doctrine of Mind-Stuff”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, page 214:
text: 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.
ref: 1981, R. S. Woolhouse, Leibniz: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science, page 116:
glosses: One who wills or has consciousness.
examples: text: We parayed around his bed, and I occasionally addressed to him a few appropriate sentences; but the divine precipient within had withdrawn its notices from all sublunary things: God had graciously interposed a veil between him and this life, for his feelings were not excited (as far as we could discern) by the grief and tears of his surrounding relations; nor did the inner man appear to be terrified or disturbed by any fiery temptations from the spiritual adversary, or by any other mysterious and invisible causes.
ref: 1830 August, “Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Lloyd”, in The Christian guardian, page 289:
text: The difficulties which have often been felt, and which have occasioned interminable controversies, concerning the priority of the outward or the inward act, might be lessened if we were to meditate on the facts presented to us by all the operations of life; hhow in all there is a combination of two coordinate elements; how, for instance, in perception there is a reciprocal action of the object and the precipient, which must be coinstantaneous, admitting of no priority, no exclusive causation, on one side or the other; although even here a like controversy has started up, and one psychological school ascribes all primary causative power to the objects of knowledge, another to the mind that knows.
ref: 1877, Julius Charles Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre, The Mission of the Comforter, page 297:
text: 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 ,
ref: 2005, Jeff Dwyer, Ghost Hunter's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, page 102:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Vera Velichko, The Best on the East, page 409:
text: In order to attain absolute prevision the precipient must be able to function consciously in maximally-dimensional space.
ref: 2006, W. Whately Smith, A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival, page 108:
glosses: One who perceives, especially one who is particularly sensitive.