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ORGANISMS |
Living beings |
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ZOOGONY |
The doctrine of the formation of living beings. |
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ALIVE |
Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings;
swarming; thronged. |
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THRONG |
To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with
a crowd of living beings. |
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SHORT-LIVED |
Not living or lasting long; being of short
continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure;
short-lived passion. |
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TRANSFORMISM |
The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have
originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms
of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. |
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ARCHEUS |
The vital principle or force which (according to the
Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living
beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. |
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BEING |
That which exists in any form, whether it be material or
spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a
thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. |
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HEREDITY |
...ical
qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which
living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their
descend... |
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PSYCHISM |
The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally
diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in
their actions be... |
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AUTOMATON |
...e
power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to
imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds,
... |
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BIOPLASM |
...tter
supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the
material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered
... |
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LIFELESS |
Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing,
or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead;
spiritless; pow... |
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LAW |
...sposition and
conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a
rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of ac... |
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GENERATION |
...or remove from an ancestor; the mass
of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or
the ordinary period of time at which ... |