entelechy
Glossary term
/ɛnˈtɛləki/
The realised tendency of a thing toward its natural end. Alderman Oldphart invokes it to explain Bristol’s inability to leave a Mayoral chair empty.
Appears in
- Pretty Poli chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…City shall find itself in want of a body to fill the place by this means vacated, the entelechy of our City having its own natural horror vacui. Moreover, whereas it has pleased us upon a previous occasion to elect to this office an individual of the avian persuasion, inasmuch as it is not on account of any specifically avian property of his that our esteemed colleague has derelicted from…