chemism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chemism
1850–55; chem- + -ism, modeled on French chimisme, equivalent to chim ( ie ) chemistry + -isme -ism
Example Sentences
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Reproduction, variation, and heredity are the properties of all living matter; but they are not, like gravity and chemism, universal forces of nature.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
He always carried a paper bag of them in his pocket, and he had a way of saying frequently that the chemism of his nature demanded such fare.
From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack
Mechanism and chemism are adequate to account for astronomy and geology, and therefore, he thinks, are sufficient to account for biology, without calling in the aid of any Bergsonian life impulse.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective ~ or attraction.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Without this, chemism and mechanism would work together to quite other ends.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
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