† ˈmonady Obs. rare.
[irreg. f. monad.]
The number one.
| 1637 Heywood London's Mirr. B 4 b, [The Pythagorean school reasoned that] all nations..can tell no farther than to the Denary, which is Ten, and then returne in their account unto the Monady, that is one. 1659 tr. Fludd's Mos. Philos. 132 God..is understood to be that absolute Monady or Unity, which onely was in it self. |