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pamphysical, a. rare.|pæmˈfɪzɪkəl| [f. as prec. + -al1.] Considering material nature as the source of all phenomena.
1885J. Martineau Types Eth. The. I. Introd. 19 The extreme points between which philosophy has oscillated..are the pantheistic and (if I may invent a phrase) the pamphysical poles of doctrine. Ibid. II. Introd. 3 It may be regarded as determined into existence either from God, or from Nature{ddd}if from Nature, we take the pamphysical [track], within sight of Comte. So pamphysicism |pæmˈfɪzɪsɪz(ə)m|, the pamphysical doctrine or theory.
1895Fairbairn Catholicism viii. (1899) 360 Under the impulse given to pamphysicism by evolution, agnosticism became belligerent and constructive. |