There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective zoo-organic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1890s.
The earliest known use of the adjective zoo-organic is in the 1820s.
OED's earliest evidence for zoo-organic is from 1821, in the writing of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher.
Nearby entries
- zoonomic, adj.1836–
- zoonomical, adj.1800–
- zoonomist, n.1800–99
- zoonomy, n.1800–
- zoonosis, n.1873–
- zoonosologist, n.1860–
- zoonosology, n.1845–
- zoonotic, adj.1877–
- zoon politikon, n.1895–
- zoonters, int.a1763–
- zoo-organic, adj.1821–90
- zoopathologist, n.1898–
- zoopathology, n.1841–
- zoophagan, n. & adj.1835–
- zoophagic, adj.1903–
- zoophagous, adj.1788–
- zoophagy, n.1849–
- zoophile, n.1885–
- zoophilia, n.1894–
- zoophilic, adj.1884–
- zoophilism, n.1867–
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.
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
1856
The Elementary Symmetry of Zoo-organic Forms.
J. G. Macvicar, Elements Econ. Nature (ed. 2) xvii. 104 (heading)
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
Of or relating to animals, esp. mammals or quadrupeds (as contrasted with humans); animal or mammalian in kind or nature. In early use…
Of or belonging to the brutes, as opposed to man; of the nature of a brute; animal. Obsolete or archaic.
Characterized by the unrestrained indulgence of physical or sensual desires or appetites, in a manner regarded as characteristic of an animal…
Of or belonging to animals; resembling (that of) an animal.
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.
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.
Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form
zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.
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