1868 Oct. 394 Agenesis, or the formation of a living being by the spontaneous organization of non-living matter.
1926 J. S. Huxley 261 For Haldane, regulation places organisms in a different category from any non-living systems.
1992 M. Riva 706 It is this nonchallenging, this automatic acceptance,..of utterances made by ‘living legends’, and even nonliving ones, that angers me.