Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forming organs or an organized structure; constituting an organism; formative; acting through or resulting from organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Making an
organic ororganized structure ; producing anorganism . - adjective Acting through, or resulting from,
organs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Pease divides the lectures of the day into three classes; first those of which the object is instruction, then those designed to amuse, and last, those which profess to serve both these purposes; and he thinks it may be said of all, that they have no _vital, form-giving, organific principle_, running through them, developing properly each separate part, and uniting them all by its own power.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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The close of this process of organific metamorphosis and desquamation is death, whose finality is utter decomposition, restoring all the bodily elements to the original inorganic conditions from which they were taken.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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