anatomism

English

Etymology

From anatomy +‎ -ism.

Noun

anatomism (uncountable)

1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
   • 1878 May 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, April 27, 1878”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volumes (please either specify the issue number or |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

Translations

doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of life

• Portuguese: anatomismo m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anatomism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nomismata