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- proper noun A
medical movement of sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuryEurope , based on thetheories andtherapies of Paracelsus.
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Paracelsian + -ism
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First of all, they saw in atomism a systematic mode of explanation, sanctified by time, with which they could confront the alterna - tives of Aristotelianism and Paracelsianism which many found intellectually stultifying and, because of the adherents of these other paths, often socially unaccept - able.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968
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