homœomery
(hɒmiːˈɒmərɪ)
Also homoio-, and in L. form homœomeria.
[ad. L. homœomerīa (Lucretius), ad. Gr. ὁµοιοµέρεια, n. of quality f. ὁµοιοµερής consisting of like parts, f. ὅµοιος like + µέρος part.]
a. The theory (propounded by Anaxagoras) that the ultimate particles of matter are homogeneous or of the same kind. b. pl. The ultimate particles of matter, regarded, according to this theory, as homogeneous.
| 1660 Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1701) 403/1 They who assert Homoiomeria's, and bulks, and leasts, and indivisibles, to be elements, conceive their substance eternal. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. §20. 380 Anaxagoras..supposed Two Substantial Self-existent Principles of the Universe, one an Infinite Mind or God, the other an Infinite Homoiomery of Matter, or Infinite Atoms. Ibid. v. 741 [see atomology]. 1766 G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iii. 266 Of Anaxagoras why the scheme reject, And flaws in Homœomery detect? 1865 Grote Plato I. i. 51 Particles of the same sort he [Anaxagoras] called Homœomeries: the aggregates of which formed bodies of like parts. |