rare. [a. F. chemisme, parallel to chimiste: see -ISM.] Chemical action, operation, activity or force.
1850. (title) Reichenbach’s Physico-Physiological Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, Electricity,… and Chemism in their relation to Vital Force.
1878. Kingzett, Anim. Chem., 20. Liebig draws a few crystalline threads out of the tissue of life, and holds them up to admiration as the share of chemism.
1887. A. Seth, Hegelianism, 88. Hegel passes from Mechanism to Chemism, and from Chemism to Teleology, and the notion of the organism, recognising in all alike an objective validity.
