Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to animalcules.
- Of or pertaining to the physiological doctrine of animalculism.
- An equivalent form is animalculine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling,
animalcules .
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Examples
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If I undertake to look through a drop of water, I may be arrested at first, indeed, by the sports and struggles of animalcular life; but at length I find myself gazing beyond it into infinitude -- using it as
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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They are usually classified, by writers on the subject, into: animalcular eruptions, or those due to the presence of animalcula
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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England's great men and women, -- poor little Browning, animalcular
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Is this owing to the absence of destructive animalcular life in such localities, and has man any agency in the introduction and naturalization of these organisms in regions previously not infested by them.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical) 1874
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Strip it naked and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life, not alone the noble forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanisms of the human body, but the human mind itself -- emotion, intellect, will, and all these phenomena, were once latent in a fiery cloud.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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In my lecture on Dust and Disease in 1870, I referred to an experiment made by Helmholtz upon himself which strikingly connected hay fever with animalcular life.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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We will apply the method, in the first place, to an experiment of M. Pouchet intended to prove conclusively that animalcular life is developed in cases where no antecedent germs could possibly exist.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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The inability of air which had been filtered through cotton-wool to generate animalcular life, had been demonstrated by
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Strip it naked, and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itself -- emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena -- were once latent in a fiery cloud.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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One of his "Capsula's" is devoted to the animalcular origin of diseases, at the end of which he says, speaking of remedies for this supposed source of our distempers:
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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