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Entelechy   Listen
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Entelechy  n.  (Peripatetic Philos.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.






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... country, translates it "act." Function, we think would be a better rendering. (See W. Archer Butler's Lectures, Last Series, Lect. 2.) Aristotle uses the word as a definition of the soul. "The soul," he says, "is the first entelechy of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various



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