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act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.

quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.

quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

he yielding or flow of rock material beneath the surface under gravitative stress. By the theory of isostasy each unit column of the earth, from surface to center, has approximately the same weight, and the continents stand higher than the ocean beds chiefly because the material of the crust has there less density.…

The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.

xistence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garde…

The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

udite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words of learned length and thundering sound. Goldsmith. The learned, learned men; men of erudition; schola…

A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.

The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.

school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

The doctrine or theory of monads.

The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes.

The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.