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enminded

enminded is the simple past and past participle of enmind.

Meaning of enmind

Verb

enmind (third-person singular simple present enminds, present participle enminding, simple past and past participle enminded)

  1. (transitive) To bring to mind; to perceive or envision consciously.
    • What is needed now ... is to find a way to restore a sense of the sacred to science and to the world - to embody mind and to "enmind" matter.2005, Jerome S. Bernstein, Living in the Borderland, →ISBN

Adjective

enminded (comparative more enminded, superlative most enminded)

  1. Sentient; capable of conscious thought.
    • In this the broad question is one of evidence; and, since a problem of evidence is a problem of testing, the chief question is, " How can I test the conjecture that human bodies are enminded and that enminded bodies have feelings, or (in the form in which I will discuss it) carry out actions?1960, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, page 187
    • The post-Kantian German idealists, in summary, proposed an account in which an intelligible epistemic and practical relation to the world was supported 'by a more basic layer of our embodied and enminded being in the world' (1999,158).2012, P. Crittenden, Reason, Will and Emotion, →ISBN

Forms of enminded

comparativemore enminded
superlativemost enminded

Questions about enminded

What does enminded mean?
Enminded means sentient; capable of conscious thought.
What is enminded the simple past and past participle of?
Enminded is the simple past and past participle of enmind.
What part of speech is enminded?
Enminded is an adjective.

Words near enminded in the dictionary

  1. enmewing
  2. enmews
  3. enmilden
  4. enmildens
  5. enmind
  6. enminded
  7. enminding
  8. enminds
  9. enmingle
  10. enmingles
  11. enmire

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