zoo-organichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoo-organic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoo-organic, adj.
Revised 2017

† zoo-organicadjective

Obsolete rare.
  1. 1821–90
    a. Of or relating to a life force or vital force; of or relating to animal magnetism; b. of or relating to chemical constituents of animal origin.
    1. 1821
      Vital or zoo-organic power, instinct and understanding, fall all three under the same definition in genere.
      S. T. Coleridge, Letters (1895) vol. II. 712
    2. 1856
      The Elementary Symmetry of Zoo-organic Forms.
      J. G. Macvicar, Elements Econ. Nature (ed. 2) xvii. 104 (heading)
    3. c1890
      There is a subtle life-force in mankind and in animals to which the term Zoo-Organic or Animal Magnetism..has been used to distinguish.
      J. Coates, How to Mesmerise iii. 37

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.