organisticadj.
/ˌɔːɡəˈnɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌɔrɡəˈnɪstɪk/ 1. Of or relating to organists or the organ. Now also: (of a different musical instrument) resembling an organ in its sound.
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organized1603
organal1611
organica1631
organistic1817
organed1834
1817 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 4) Organistic, an epithet applied to music composed for the organ.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 20 Jan. 33 It is entirely without organistic grandiosity.
2000 Amer. Rec. Guide (Nexis) 1 May 242 The musical ideas and patterns in this challenging piece fly by amid dissonance and unusual organistic devices.
2. Of or relating to an organism or organized structure.
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the world > life > biology > organism > [adjective] > relating to
organical1643
organic1796
structural1804
enorganic1846
organismal1861
organistic1910
1910 Fabian News 21 16/1 He adopts the organistic view of society—that society is a being.
1945 S. C. Pepper Basis of Crit. in Arts iv. 75 Bosanquet gathered together the scattered results of a century of organistic thought.
2000 B. W. Redekop Enlightenment & Community 186 Aristotelian developmentalism must not be forgotten as an important factor in any organistic theory of development in the early modern period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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