vitalistic
- a word derived from vitalism.
Example Sentences
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It was also his belief in vitalism, apparently transmitted to Charles, that provided the “crucial link to alternative medicine,” given that so much of alternative medicine is based on vitalistic beliefs.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2015
In 1899, by fertilizing sea-urchin eggs with chemicals and producing young larvae, he struck a heavy blow at the popular vitalistic theory which maintained that some intangible "vital spirit" or "entelechy" was necessary to life.
From Time Magazine Archive
And DNA, once unveiled, left little room for the ethereal, vitalistic accounts of life that so many people had found comforting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soviet Scientist Oparin waves away the various vitalistic theories which hold that life appeared because of some transcendent animating principle which pervades the universe�or that life has always existed.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his “Theory of Dominants,”96 Reinke, the botanist of Kiel, has attempted to formulate his opposition to the physico-chemical conception of life into a vitalistic theory of his own.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
