单词 | vitalistic |
释义 | vitalisticadj. 1. Of or pertaining to, involving or denoting, vitalism or a hypothetical vital principle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [adjective] vitalc1405 beastly?c1425 spirital1568 vival1636 archeal1728 vitalistic1865 orgonotic1942 orgonomic1949 the world > life > biology > theories > [adjective] > of origin or development of life animalistic1739 panspermic1857 post-Darwinian1865 vitalistic1865 nomogenous1869 biogenetic1870 monogenetic1873 biogenetic1879 vitalistic1891 ovistic1893 biogenic1901 hologenetic1936 young-earth1979 1865 Englishman's Mag. Feb. 158 Though Homer assures us that..Polybius and Machaon excelled in the healing art, nothing..remains to throw any light upon their vitalistic theories. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 395 The Karen doctrine of the là is indeed a perfect and well-marked vitalistic system. 1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women v. 49 The great question implied in vitalistic doctrine. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the germ-theory (see germ n. Compounds 3), esp. in its relation to fermentation. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > [adjective] > of origin or development of life animalistic1739 panspermic1857 post-Darwinian1865 vitalistic1865 nomogenous1869 biogenetic1870 monogenetic1873 biogenetic1879 vitalistic1891 ovistic1893 biogenic1901 hologenetic1936 young-earth1979 1891 Nature 26 Mar. 482/1 It was no easy thing for him to justify the study of fermentation on the lines suggested by what was called the vitalistic or germ-theory. Draft additions 1993 b. Art. Pertaining to a vivid, representational style of esp. modernist art that emphasizes energy and movement. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others all'antica1605 neo-Gothic1878 Barbizon1890 chinoiserie1909 neoprimitive1922 omega1922 Suprematist1922 beaux arts1924 ashcan1934 vitalistic1937 Euston Road1941 precisionist1943 abstract impressionist1950 abstract-concrete1955 neo-expressionist1957 metaphysical1958 structurist1958 auto-destructive1959 Rayonist1968 post-minimal1971 assemblagist1977 Neo-Geo1987 1937 H. Read Art & Society ii. 65 [Scythian art]..represents them in a very vitalistic manner, concentrating on their most typical features and characteristic movements. 1982 B. Rose Century of Mod. Drawing from Mus. Mod. Art N.Y. (Brit. Mus. Publ.) 31 Initially he [sc. Kandinsky] built on the energy of the vitalistic line, under the influence also of Fauvism and Matisse. 1985 Nash & Merkert Naum Gabo 35/2 How much the latter quality may be due to the vitalistic tendencies Gabo encountered in England is hard to say. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1865 |
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