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zoism


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Zoism  \Zo"ism\,  n.  [Gr.  zwh`  life  +  -ism.] 
  1.  Reverence  for  animal  life  or  belief  in  animal  powers  and 
  influences,  as  among  savages. 
 
  2.  (Biol.)  A  doctrine,  now  discarded,  that  the  phenomena  of 
  life  are  due  to  a  peculiar  vital  principle;  the  theory  of 
  vital  force.