† inorˈganical, a. Obs.
[f. in-3 + organical. Cf. Gr. ἀνόργανος without organs or instruments.]
1. Without organs or instruments; not having, or not acting by, organs. Said of the soul or mind.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. ix, Many erroneous opinions are about the essence and original of it [the soul]..whether it be organical, or inorganical; seated in the brain, heart or blood; mortal or immortal. Ibid., All three faculties make one Soule, which is inorganicall of it selfe, although it be in all parts, and incorporeall, using their Organs, and working by them. 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §36 Nor truely can I peremptorily deny, that the soule in this her sublunary estate, is wholly and in all acceptions inorganicall. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §45. 55 Aristotle should otherwise contradict himself, who had before affirmed, the Intellect to be Separable, Unmixed and Inorganical. a 1688 ― Immut. Mor. (1731) 135 Though Sense is Passive and Organical, yet Knowledge is Inorganical and an Active Power and Strength of the Mind. |
2. = inorganic 1.
| 1674 Boyle Eff. Air's Moisture Wks. III. 799 The moistening particles..exercise a notable..force, even upon inanimate and inorganical bodies. 1685 ― Effects Mot. vii. 80 Sonorous motions of the Air..find in bodies inanimate and Inorganicall, such congruous Textures and Dispositions to admit their action. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. iii. vi. §12 We come to the lowest and most inorganical parts of matter. |