‖ monas
(ˈmɒnæs)
Pl. monades (ˈmɒnədiːz).
[Gr. µονάς: see monad.]
1. = monad in various senses.
| 1568 J. Dee in Ashm. (1652) 334 Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Monas (Gr.), the number one, unity. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 472 Though He be a monas and we are monades, yet [etc.]. 1865 Grote Plato I. i. 11 The first principle or beginning of Number was the One or Monas. 1870 J. H. Newman Gram. Assent i. v. 121 The One Personal God, who is not a logical or physical Unity, but a living Monas. 1872 Morris tr. Ueberweg's Hist. Philos. §82 I. 309 So the divine Logos, after its hypostatization in Christ, returned again to the Father or Monas. |
† 2. Arith. (See quot.) Obs. rare—1.
| 1674 S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 5 Digits are sometimes called Monades. 1704 in J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. |