Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A believer in hylozoism; one who holds that matter, and every particle of it, has a species of life or animation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A believer in hylozoism.
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- noun A
proponent ofhylozoism .
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Examples
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It would be modernising him too severely to style him a hylozoist.
Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889
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It will be remembered that Thales had placed the cause of motion in matter itself, not in something other than matter; that is to say, he was to all intents and purposes a hylozoist.
Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889
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