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1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters. The London Spectator. 2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of

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1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters. The London Spectator. 2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

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• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• PHENOMENALISM
  That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• PHENOMENAL
  Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• ANATOMISM
  1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters. The London Spectator. 2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• STRUCTURE
  Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• SPECTATOR
  One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• ANATOMIC; ANATOMICAL
  Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.
• MICROORGANISM; MICRO-ORGANISM
  Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.