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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Zoism

· Zo·ism · IPA
01 n. Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages.
  1. 1.
    Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages.
  2. 2.
    A doctrine, now discarded, that the phenomena of life are due to a peculiar vital principle; the theory of vital force.(Biol.)