dichotomic, a.
(daɪkəʊˈtɒmɪk)
[mod. f. as dichotom-ous + -ic: in F. dichotomique.]
Relating to or involving dichotomy; dichotomous.
| 1873 Brit. Q. Rev. Jan. 301 The Scriptural representation is as often dichotomic as it is trichotomic..The dichotomic must be radically and essentially wrong. 1881 Lincoln tr. Trousseau & Pidoux, Treat. Therapeutics I. 278 The followers of Brown and Broussais, after a long struggle with the arguments which were ruining their dichotomic doctrine, were at last forced to recognise special diseases. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2231 A decidedly dichotomic expression, as 1 Pet. ii. 11, where the soul is regarded simply according to her spiritual determination as the bearer of the divine life-principle. |