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vitalistic, a.|vaɪtəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
1. Of or pertaining to, involving or denoting, vitalism or a hypothetical vital principle.
1865Englishm. Mag. Feb. 158 Though Homer assures us that..Polybius and Machaon excelled in the healing art, nothing..remains to throw any light upon their vitalistic theories. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 395 The Karen doctrine of the là is indeed a perfect and well-marked vitalistic system. 1889Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) xxviii. 224 The great question implied in vitalistic doctrine.
2. Pertaining to or denoting the germ-theory (see germ n. 6), esp. in its relation to fermentation.
1891Nature 26 Mar. 482/1 It was no easy thing for him to justify the study of fermentation on the lines suggested by what was called the vitalistic or germ-theory.
Add:[1.] b. Art. Pertaining to a vivid, representational style of esp. modernist art that emphasizes energy and movement.
1937H. Read Art & Society ii. 65 [Scythian art]..represents them in a very vitalistic manner, concentrating on their most typical features and characteristic movements. 1982B. Rose Century of Mod. Drawing from Mus. Mod. Art N.Y. (Brit. Mus. Publ.) 31 Initially he [sc. Kandinsky] built on the energy of the vitalistic line, under the influence also of Fauvism and Matisse. 1985Nash & Merkert Naum Gabo 35/2 How much the latter quality may be due to the vitalistic tendencies Gabo encountered in England is hard to say. |