zoonisthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoonist_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZoonist, adj.
Revised 2017

† Zoonistadjective

Obsolete. rare.
  1. 1890–97
    Designating a conception of nature as a living entity, or one that attributes life to all natural objects; of or relating to such a conception.
    1. 1890
      According to the Zoönist conception of things, there is but one Living World, in which every single thing is conceived as akin to every other thing, sympathetically actable on by other things, and transformable into every other thing.
      J. S. Stuart-Glennie in L. M. J. Garnett, Women of Turkey vol. I. p. lxiv
    2. 1892
      The conception of nature as itself living, or the Zoönist conception, and..the conception of nature as inclusive of beings of a superhuman character, or the Supernalist conception.
      Athenæum 25 June 829/2
    3. 1897
      Among the Zoönist poems are dialogues between personified natural objects.
      Folk-Lore September 274

Zoonist, adj. was revised in June 2017.

Zoonist, adj. was last modified in December 2024.