† organificadj.
Obsolete.
Having the property or power of forming organs or organized structures; formative, organizing.
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organific1821
morphotic1852
1821 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 430 An organizing, organific process.
1840 J. H. Green Vital Dynamics 36 To..concentrate the organific energies.
1877 Mind 2 399 The action of the organific principle, in working up the matter and forces of inorganic nature into the manifold forms of the vegetable and the animal kingdom.
1897 Philos. Rev. 6 266 The whole of things is organific, and only that which subserves is actual.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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