释义 |
physiurgic, a. rare.|fɪzɪˈɜːdʒɪk| [f. Gr. ϕύσι-ς nature + ἔργον work + -ic: cf. theurgic.] Produced or acted upon solely by nature.
1816Bentham Chrestom. 187 Applied to bodies..in their natural, or say physiurgic, state—human art—or say elaboration by human art—has two distinguishable objects. 1843Bowring Introd. Bentham's Wks. i. 16/2 Natural History and Natural Philosophy are respectively represented by Physiurgic Somatology, and Anthropurgic Somatology. So physiurgoˈscopic a. rare.
1816Bentham Chrestom. Wks. 1843 VIII. 86 Division of Somatology, or Somatics at large, into Physiurgic (Physiurgoscopic) and Anthropurgic (Anthropurgoscopic). |