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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ANATOMISM
A *
nat
"o *mism, n.
Etym:
[
Cf.
F. anatomisme.]
1.
The
application
of
the
principles
of
anatomy,
as
in
art.
The
stretched
and
vivid
anatomism
of
their
[i. e.,
the
French
]
great
figure
painters.
The
London
Spectator.
2.
The
doctrine
that
the
anatomical
structure
explains
all
the
phenomena
of
the
organism
or
of
animal
life.