precipient

— 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 Almighty spirit to consist only in the organizing system of the visible universe.

— 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around his bed, and I occasionally addressed to him a few appropriate sentences; but the divine precipient within had withdrawn its notices from all sublunary things: God had graciously interposed a veil between him and this life, for his feelings were not excited (as far as we could discern) by the grief and tears of his surrounding relations; nor did the inner man appear to be terrified or disturbed by any fiery temptations from the spiritual adversary, or by any other mysterious and invisible causes.

— Identity, as applied to man, denotes strictly the same unchanged and unchangeable precipient unity, notwithstanding any diversity of modes or of relations as to time, place, or other objects, which it may have experienced.

— Total embolism of the left artery; organic disease of the heart; retention of a small island of precipient retina; treatment by deep massage with slight improvement .