organicistn.adj.
/ɔːˈɡanᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ɔrˈɡænəsəst/ A. n.
An advocate or supporter of organicism (in various senses).
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > concerning disease
localista1633
non-contagionist1824
infectionist1830
contagionist1831
solidist1842
naturist1848
neuropath1876
organicist1879
unicist1890
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > organicism > adherent of
organicist1912
1879 G. H. Lewes Study Psychol. 36 The two antagonistic schools of spiritualists and organicists, the one referring insanity to disease of the soul, the other to disease of the body.
1912 A. Tridon tr. Y. Delage & M. Goldsmith Theories Evol. 164 Roux and the other organicists lay special stress on the factors of individual evolution.
1945 S. C. Pepper Basis of Crit. Arts iv. 74 It was due, as the organicist is fond of saying, to ‘the weakness of the spectator’.
1974 D. L. Hull Philos. Biol. Sci. 125 Exchanges between the so-called mechanists and organicists, materialists and vitalists, reductionists and holists, to mention but a few of the terms used to characterize the two sides of this perennial dispute.
1988 Bull. Hist. Med. 62 535 Neither Laennec or Bouillaud, the organicist, accepted contagion as a cause of tuberculosis.
2001 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader (Nexis) 13 Aug. a8 Physiological causes of stuttering were pursued by ancient organicists.
B. adj.
Of or relating to organicism (in various senses).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [adjective] > relating to organicism or organicists
organicist1895
organicistic1914
1895 Times 1 Aug. 12/1 The stimulant, contra-stimulant, or organicist ways of accounting for everything.
1941 W. M. Urban in P. A. Schilpp Philos. A. N. Whitehead 304 Bergson from whom..the organicist philosophy has got its main insights.
1969 P. A. Robinson Freudian Left 164 He [sc. Marcuse] argued that the Fascist conception of the state was in fact heir to the organicist tradition in political theory.
1988 Jrnl. Design Hist. 1 103/2 This [sc. art botany] set in motion organicist design theories which have continued down to this day.
2001 Sociology (Nexis) 35 985 Ultra-historicist and organicist views of cultural specificity have also been inclined to cultural supremacism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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