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Webster 1913 Edition
Anatomism
A-nat′o-mism
,Noun.
[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.