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zoonomia

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zoonomy, zoonomia
the laws of animal life or the animal kingdom. — zoonomist, n. — zoonomic, adj.
See also: Animals
the laws of animal life or the animal kingdom. — zoonomist, n.zoonomic, adj.
See also: Zoology


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24) In his comparison with the palace that Empress Anna had constructed in St Petersburg in 1739-40, Coleridge sought to damn with faint praise Darwin's poem, The Temple of Nature (1802), in which the author expresses ideas of Zoonomia or the Laws of Organic Life.
And grandson Charles would have found Erasmus's book Zoonomia (1794-6) very handy with regard to his biological studies and theories of evolution.
The list runs from aboideau to zoonomia, and includes terms such as azotemia, banlieue, etouffee, ibogaine, mazaedia, oceanaut, pahoehoe, retiarii, thiourea and uxorious.
 
 
 
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