a. [ad. Gr. ζαικός, f. ζῷον animal; in sense 1 taken as f. ζωή life, after AZOIC.]

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  1.  Showing traces of life; in Geol., containing organic remains.

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1863.  Dana, Man. Geol., 597. If, therefore, these simple species existed in the Azoic era, they were systemless life, and only foreshadowed the great systems of life which were afterwards displayed … in the true Zoic ages.

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1885–6.  Rep. U.S. Geol. Survey (1888), 453. These great Pre-Cambrian and Post-Archæan series are zoic in character.

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  2.  Of the nature of an animal; animal.

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1895–6.  W. J. McGee, in 17th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. (1898), 169*. The Seri face-painting would seem to be essentially zoosematic, or symbolic of zoic tutelaries.

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1900.  Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 63. The use of zoic motives in the decoration of primitive weapons.

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