atomicaladj.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories xxix. 159 Wee will not heere touch at the subtilities of the Physicks concerning colours, nor dispute whither Lvcretivs his atomicall Elements, or seedes of things haue any colour.

1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 362 The parts of this Atomical Composition still marching away, and other succeeding in their rooms.

1754 S. Mihles in tr. A. von Haller Physiol. I. 3 (note) From these indivisible or atomical particles..arise those sensible or universally extended homogeneous bodies we call physical elements.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 58/2 The microscopical and atomical structure of fat.

1904 M. L. Severy Darrow Enigma 5 He was at work upon a table of atomical pitches to match Dalton's atomic weights.

1978 Crit. Inq. 5 254 Newtonian physics had rationalized the laws of the universe in reducing its properties to atomical structures and laws of motion.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 53 Their powders and Atomicall divisions. View more context for this quotation

1752 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. 11 Minute, atomical, imperceptible bodies.

1853 N. Sheshádrí in N. Sheshádrí & J. Wilson Darkness & Dawn in India 13 Then it expands and grows... After remaining in this state for ages..the whole of this monstrous form is reduced to its original atomical size.

1653 J. Webster Academiarum Examen 78 What shall I say of the Atomical learning revived by that noble, and indefatigable person Renatus des Cartes?

1662 S. Patrick Brief Acct. Latitude-men 19 How far the Clock-menders discourse resembles the Scholastick Philosophy, or the Gentleman the atomicall, let others judge.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 57 The Controversie twixt the Peripatetick and Atomical Philosophers.

1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 107 Their favourite philosophy is the atomical or Epicurean, which with them is called the Democrital, from Democritus.

1866 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. I. viii. 170 Doctrines of the Atomical philosophers.

1924 Philos. Rev. 33 253 As our author gravely concludes, the atomical philosophy ought..to be called ‘Moschical’.

2004 A. Ede & L. B. Cormack Hist. Sci. in Society i. 24 This conception of the world operating in a mechanical fashion became known as the Mechanical Philosophy or, alternatively, the atomical or corpuscular philosophy.