botanism

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English

Noun

botanism (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly archaic) Botany.
    • 1752, James Newton, A Compleat Herbal of the Late James Newton:
      where his great variety of most rare Plants, cultivated with much care and cost, as himself takes great delight in observing the same, so doth he freely admit others, curious in Botanism, to do the like, to illustrate and augment the History of Plants.
    • 1835, Edmund Lodge, Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, page 2:
      and that "the result of these and other advantages, was a competent skill in arts, especially philosophy, mathematics, physic, and the two parts belonging to it, chirurgery and botanism."
    • 2020, Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner, Maxim Bönnemann, The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law, page 66:
      Such Southern comparativism would, hence, skirt the dual pitfall of constitutional comparitivism as outlined by Zoran Oklopcic in this volume, notably of falling either to 'naive botanism' or to hermetic incommensurability.