chemism

[kem-iz-uh m]

noun

chemical action.

Origin of chemism

1850–55; chem- + -ism, modeled on French chimisme, equivalent to chim(ie) chemistry + -isme -ism

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Examples from the Web for chemism

Historical Examples of chemism

If his chemism could only give him the mother-principle also!
The Breath of Life
John Burroughs
There is no life without chemism, but there is chemism without life.
The Breath of Life
John Burroughs
Without this, chemism and mechanism would work together to quite other ends.
The Breath of Life
John Burroughs
For the rest, the phrase "sexual metabolism" or "chemism of sexuality" is a chapter-head without content.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud

British Dictionary definitions for chemism

chemism

noun

obsolete chemical action

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