precipients

Noun

precipient (plural precipients)

1. One who wills or has consciousness.
   • 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...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
2. One who perceives, especially one who is particularly sensitive.
   • 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around his bed, and I occasionally addressed to him a few appropriate sentences; but the divine precipient within had withdrawn its notices from all sublunary things: God had graciously interposed a veil between him and this life, for his feelings were not excited (as far as we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...1830 August, “Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Lloyd”, in The Christian guardian, page 289

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