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Definition of Atomical
1. atom [adj] - See also: atom
Medical Definition of Atomical
1.
1. Of or pertaining to atoms.
2. Extremely minute; tiny. Atomic philosophy, or Doctrine of atoms, a system which assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atomical
Literary usage of Atomical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"And by this time we have made it evident, that those atomical ... doctrine of
Incorporeal substance and a Deity, together with their atomical physiology. ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... without the atomical or mechanical physiology. The former of these were
Democritus, Leucippus, and Protagoras, who took only the dead carcass or ..."
3. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"which might have been rendered more valuable by some important additions and ao-
atomical observations, had not the papers of the author been profanely ..."
4. The works of Ralph Cudworth: Containing The True Intellectual System of the by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1829)
"... took the atomical physiology, endeavouring to make it subservient to Atheism ;
and upon what occasion they did it, and how unsuccessfully.—44. ..."
5. The Philosophy of Ancient Greece Investigated: In Its Origin and Progress by Walter Anderson (1791)
"WE inquire not here, when or where the atomical ... to the view to be taken of
the atomical theories of ..."
6. A Dialogue of the Knowledge of the Supreme Lord: In which are Compared the by Rowland Williams (1856)
"Or again, to take a case, which will fall in tolerably with some of your atomical
philosophy to which the Saugata has alluded ; though Canada and his ..."
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