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单词 organism
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organismn.

Brit. /ˈɔːɡənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈɔːɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɔrɡəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: organ n.1, -ism suffix.
Etymology: < organ n.1 + -ism suffix. Compare post-classical Latin organismus (12th cent. in sense ‘polyphony (of voices)’, 1706 in sense ‘organic structure’), French organisme (1687 in sense ‘divine mechanism of organic bodies’, 1729 in sense 3a).
1. Organic structure; = organicity n. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic > systematic arrangement
ordination?a1425
structure1587
syntax1605
system1699
organism1701
classification1767
organization1790
systematization1838
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. iii. §11 It is the advantagious Organism of the Eye, by which that is procured.
1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 4) 353 So astonishing and wonderful is the organism, parts and functions of plants and trees.
1890 J. Martineau Seat Authority Relig. ii. ii. §3. 245 From the complexion of the language and the organism of the style.
2.
a. A whole with interdependent parts, compared to a living being; an organic system.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole > an organized or collective whole
altogethereOE
body1340
corpse1533
universality1561
globe?1594
orb1603
ensemble1703
organism1768
organity1929
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. xxiii. 277 When an artist has finished a fiddle to give all the notes in the gamut, but not without a hand to play upon it, this is an organism.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. vi. 299 The weight of the strong Protestant organism..might have balanced the great Catholic League.
1900 J. D. Robertson Holy Spirit iii. 53 Paul first taught us to speak of society as an organism.
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Aug. 44/3 A burbland created almost all at once, very fast and virtually ex nihilo, right after the war, a self-contained social organism.
b. Philosophy. The theory that in science everything is ultimately an organic part of an integrated whole.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > organism or process philosophy
organism1925
process philosophy1940
1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) 112 This doctrine involves the abandonment of the traditional scientific materialism, and the substitution of an alternative doctrine of organism.
1928 Jrnl. Philos. Stud. 3 33 He [sc. Lloyd Morgan] saw no reason why the term organism should not be applied to all those ‘natural entities’, as he called them, existing throughout the universe in emergent degrees of complexity.
1959 A. W. Levi Philos. & Mod. World xii. 486 The ‘philosophy of organism’..suggests the synthesis of incompatibles.
1965 E. E. Harris Found. of Metaphys. in Sci. xiv. 282 The appropriate philosophy for contemporary science must be..a philosophy of organism.
3.
a. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. Also: the material structure of such an individual; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > organism > [noun]
structure1683
organization1707
individual1746
series1748
organism1834
macroorganism1941
1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 359 The introduction of new powers into an organism necessarily requires a modification in its mode of development.
1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) i. 40 There are formations which yield their organisms slowly to the discoverer.
1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 157 The simplest organisms breathe, exhale, secrete, absorb, and reproduce by their envelopes alone.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens vii. 205 A mental and moral vigour supported by a splendid physical organism.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 60 Wounded and insulted in the most sensitive part of his organism.
1924 C. Mackenzie Old Men of Sea viii. 116 His was a cruel paralysis by which one complete half of his organism had been affected.
1976 P. Parish Medicines i. i. 18 The most obvious example is the cure of disease by drugs such as antibiotics, which destroy the invading organisms that were making the patient ill.
1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) i. 3 All living organisms are composed of cells.
b. Organized existence as a whole. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > organism > [noun] > in the mass
organism1887
1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. x. 336 That quality of beauty which I now saw to exist through all the happy conditions of living organism.
1996 Blueprint July 26/2 In developing from the New York Deconstructivist Show,..Libeskind now talks a mean line in civic participation and new patterns of social organism.

Compounds

organism–environment adj. of, relating to, or designating the relationship between an organism and its environment.
ΚΠ
1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior iii. 84 One action rather than another..is ‘required’ by the organism-environment situation.
1958 New Biol. 26 84 His [sc. man's] social, mental, and technological achievements do not make his ‘organism-environment’ relationship less important than that of other animals.
2003 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 9892 Our findings illustrate the potential for organism-environment interactions to modify the direction as well as the magnitude of global change effects on ecosystem functioning.

Derivatives

orgaˈnismal adj. of, relating to, or concerned with an organism or organisms.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > organism > [adjective] > relating to
organical1643
organic1796
structural1804
enorganic1846
organismal1861
organistic1910
1861 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes iv. 125 The power of organic chemistry to alter and extend the organismal sciences was felt and acknowledged by all.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. p. xi The outlook of these branches of zoology is necessarily organismal, and throughout the book this outlook has been adopted.
2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. (University Guide) 34 Molecular biosciences; organismal biosciences; pharmacology and pharmacy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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