n., pl., nisus.
An effort or endeavor to realize an aim.
[Latin nīsus, from past participle of nītī, to strive.]
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nisus
n., pl., nisus.
An effort or endeavor to realize an aim.
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Nīsus, in Greek myth, son of Pandion and king of Megara, whose life and his city's safety depended on a lock of red hair on his head. His daughter Scylla cut it off and Nisus was turned into a osprey. The port of Nisaea was named after him. Megareus, the husband of Nisus' daughter Iphinoē, gave his name to the city.
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy:
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(Latin, endeavour, impulse, effort) A central element of Aristotle's theory of nature, rejected in the Renaissance, is that change and movement in nature should be thought of as the operation of a nisus or principle somewhat like aspiration, yearning, or desire, driving things to develop into what they are drawn to being. See mover, unmoved; teleology.
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ni·sus n. pl. nisus An effort or endeavor to realize an aim. [Latin nisus, from past participle of niti, to strive.] [1]
In classical mythology, Nisus (or Nisos) may refer to:
- Nisus of Nisus and Euryalus, son of Hyrtacus, lover of Euryalus, in Virgil's Aeneid
- Nisos, a king of Megara
- Silenus, also called Nisus, foster father of Dionysus
- Nissus of Dulichium, son of Aretias, father of Amphinomus, in Book 18 of Homer's The Odyssey
Nisus may also refer to:
- Nisus Writer, a word processor for the Apple Macintosh.
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