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dualistic, a.|djuːəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic; cf. F. dualistique.]
1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, dualism.
1801J. Jones tr. Bygge's Trav. Fr. Rep. v. 106 He..passed over Symmer's theory [of electricity], or the dualistic system entirely. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 57 The admission of the dualistic hypothesis. 1876E. R. Lankester tr. Haeckel's Hist. Creat. I. ii. 33 In the usual dualistic or teleological conception of the universe, organic nature is regarded as the purposely executed production of a Creator working according to a definite plan. 1884Muir Princ. Chem. i. ii. ii. §48 Berzelius raised the structure of dualistic chemistry, which asserted that every compound, whether simple or complex, must be constituted of two parts, of which one is positively, and the other negatively electrified. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. (1886) I. i. xi. §8. 205 The dualistic assumption..of the mutual exclusion of extension and thought. 1892Westcott Gospel of Life 178 From this source [Zoroastrianism] dualistic doctrines invaded the Christian Church in Gnosticism and Manichæism.
2. Characterized by duality; dual.
1832Fraser's Mag. VI. 260 Consider them as the two disjointed Halves of this singular Dualistic Being of ours. 1884Muir Princ. Chem. i. ii. ii. §48 All salts were to be regarded as dualistic structures.
Hence duaˈlistically adv., in a dualistic manner; in accordance with duality.
1857De Quincey Judas Iscariot Wks. VII. 31 note, The two co-agents move in couples—move dualistically. Each is essential to the other. 1881Williamson in Nature No. 618. 414 Each of them [compound atoms] was the smallest quantity of a compound, which..could be represented as built dualistically of its constituent atoms. |