dualisticadj.

1801 J. Jones tr. T. Bugge Trav. French Republic v. 106 He..passed over Symmer's theory [of electricity], or the dualistic system entirely.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 57 The admission of the dualistic hypothesis.

1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. ii. 33 In the usual dualistic or teleological (vital) conception of the universe, organic nature is regarded as the purposely executed production of a Creator working according to a definite plan.

1884 M. M. P. Muir Treat. Princ. Chem. i. ii. ii. §48 Berzelius raised the structure of dualistic chemistry, which asserted that every compound, whether simple or complex, must be constituted of two parts, of which one is positively, and the other negatively electrified.

1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory (1886) I. i. xi. §8. 205 The dualistic assumption..of the mutual exclusion of extension and thought.

1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 178 From this source [Zoroastrianism] dualistic doctrines invaded the Christian Church in Gnosticism and Manichæism.

1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 260 Consider them as the two disjointed Halves of this singular Dualistic Being of ours.

1884 M. M. P. Muir Treat. Princ. Chem. i. ii. ii. §48 All salts were to be regarded as dualistic structures.

1857 T. De Quincey Judas Iscariot (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VII. 31 The two co-agents move in couples—move dualistically. Each is essential to the other.

1881 A. W. Williamson in Nature No. 618. 414 Each of them [compound atoms] was the smallest quantity of a compound, which..could be represented as built dualistically of its constituent atoms.