The biostatical and the biodiinamieal i. e., the consid- 
eration of the structure ready to act, and the considera- 
tion of the structure acting. 
G. II. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. 119. 
(bi'o-jen), . [< Gr. /#of, life, + -x//f, 
producing:' see -gen.] A hypothetical soul- 
stuff; the substance of a supposed spiritual 
body ; the od of organic life. Cones. 
biogenation (bl"o-je-na'shon), n. [< biogen + 
-ation.] The state or quality of being affected 
by biogen ; animation ; vitalization. 
All animals are probably also susceptible of bioyeiuition, 
which is the affection resulting from the influence of bio- 
gen. Cowi, Key to If. A. Birds, p. 192. 
~ " Gr. ftiof, " 
binomialist 558 
binomialist(bi-n6'mi-al-ist), n. [< binomial, n., biodynamical (bi'o-di-nam'i-kal), a. 
+ -ist.] One who use's the binomial system of biodynamic. 
nomenclature in zoology and botany. See bi- 
nomial, a., 2. 
binomiality (bi-no-mi-al'i-ti), n. [< binomial 
+ -iti/.] Same as biitnuiiali/nii. 
binomially (bi-uo'mi-al-i), adv. 
manner ; after the binomial method 
clature in zoology and botany. opposed'to biostatics. 
binominal (bl-nom'i-nal), . [< L. bmomims, - " 
having two names (< bi-, two-, + iionien, name), 
+ -rtf.J Same as binomial, 2. 
binominated (bi-nom'i-na-ted), a. [< L. bi-, 
two-, + nominatus, named (see nominate), + 
-ed?.] Having two personal names. 
binominoust (bi-nom'i-nus), a. [< L. binomi- 
als: see binominal.] Having or bearing two 
names. 
binormal (bl-nor'mal), . [< bi-~ + normal] 
In math., a normal to two consecutive elements biogenesis (bi-o-jen'e-sis), it. 
of a curve in space ; a nor- t: ~ 
mal perpendicular to the 
osculating plane, 
binotate, feinotated (bi- 
no'tat, -ta-ted), a. [< L. 
bi-, two, -t- nota, mark, + 
-flfc 1 , -ated.] In zool., mark- 
ed with two dots, 
binotonous (bl-not'6-nus), 
a. [< L. bini, two by 
two (see binary), + tonus, 
note, tone (see tone) ; after 
monotonous.] Consisting 
of two tones or notes : as, 
a binotonous sound, 
binous (bi'nus), a. [< L. 
binus, usually in pi. bini, 
two and two, double: see binary and between.] 
Double ; in a pair ; binate. 
binoxalate (bi-nok'sa-lat), n, [< L. bini, two 
and two (see binary), + oxalate.] In diem., 
an oxalate in which only one of the hydrogen 
atoms of the acid is replaced by a metal. 
biomagnetic 
Same as biography (bi-og'ra-fi), .; pi. biographies (-fiz). 
[= P. biograpMe, < LGr. purypa+ia, biography, < 
*thoypdifo<; (> ML. biographus, > P. biograjihe, a 
biographer), < Gr. fiiof, life, + yiiafetv, write.] 
1 . The history of the life of a particular person . 
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom 
a biography, the life of a man. Carlyle, Essays. 
2. Biographical writing in general, or as a de- 
partment of literature. 
This, then, was the first great merit of Montesquieu, 
that he effected a complete separation between biography 
nnil history, and taught historians to study, not the pecu- 
liarities of individual character, but the general aspect of 
the society in which the peculiarities appeared. 
Buckle, Civilization, I. xiil. 
3. In nnt. hist., the life-history of an animal or 
a plant. = Syn. 1. Biography, Memoir. When there is 
a difference between these words, it may be that memoir 
indicates a less complete or minute account of a person's 
life, or it may be that the person himself records his own 
recollections of the past, especially as connected with his 
wn life ; in the latter case memoir should be in the plural. 
-t- -/beats, generation: see genesis.] I. The biokinetics (bi"6-ki-net 'iks), n. [< Gr. [)iof, 
genesis or production of living beings from liv- ijf e< + kinetics.] That part of biological science 
mg beings ; generation in an ordinary sense : which treats of the successive changes through 
the converse of spontaneous generation, or abio- w hich organisms pass during the different 
genesis. Various methods in which biogenesis is known stages of their development, 
to occur ;give rise to special terms, as gamogmerii, parthe- biologian (bi-o-16'jian), n. [< biology + -ian.] 
^ThT'doctrine which holds that the genesis A hiolocnst. 
of living beings from living beings is the only 
one of which we have any knowledge, and 
which investigates or speculates upon the facts 
in the case upon such premises : the opposite 
of abiogenesis. 3. Same as biogeny, 1. 
Binomial. The full lines 
show a cylinder with a helix 
nonnais u ^rh=d a o n ,id w n,, b es biogenesis* '(bl-O-jen'e-sist) n. "['< 
+ -ist.] One who favors the theory ot biogen- 
esis. Also called biogenist. 
biogenetic (bi"o-je-net'ik), a. 
to which systematists and biolo- 
ng vertebrate forms. 
The Century, XXXI. 352. 
j'ik), a. [< biology + -ic.] Same 
v the tangents and prin- 
cipal normals at the same 
two points of the helix and 
the axis of the cylinder. 
sense 2, < biogen),' utter genetic.] 1. Of or per- 
taining to biogenesis or biogeny in any way: 
as, a biogenetic process; a biogenetic law or 
principle. 
This fundamental bioyenetic law. Haeckel (trans.). 
2. Consisting of biogen ; done by means of bio- 
binoxid, binoxide (bi-nok'sid," -sid or -sid), . gen ! relating to the theory of biogen Cov.es. 
[< L. bini, two and two (see binary), + oxid.] biogenetically (bi"o-je-net i-kal-i), adv. In a 
In eliem., same as dioxid. ntic manner b 
The interpretation of structure ... is aided by two 
subsidiary divisions of biologic inquiry, named Compara- 
tive Anatomy (properly Comparative Morphology) and 
Comparative Embryology. //. Spencer. 
[< biogenesis (in biological (bi-o-loj'i-kal), a. 1. Pertaining to 
biology or the science of life. 
They [the discoveries of Cuvier] contain a far larger por- 
tion of important anatomical and biological truth than it 
ever before fell to the lot of one man to contribute. 
Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sciences, I. 629. 
The prick of a needle will yield, in a drop of one's blood, 
material for microscopic observation of phenomena which 
binoxyde, . See binoxid. 
biogenetic manner; by means of or according 
to the principles of biogenesis or biogeny. 
, . . 
bintt. A Middle English and Anglo-Saxon con- biogenist (bi-oj'e-mst), . 
tracted form of bindetlt, the third person singu- . Same as bwgenesist. 
lar of bind. 
[< biogeny + -ist.] 
lie at the foundation of all biological conceptions. 
Huxley, Pop. Scl. Mo., XI. 070. 
2. In zooL, illustrating the whole life-history 
of a group or species of animals : as, a biologi- 
cal collection of insects. 
binturong (bin'tu-rong), n. The native name, 
and now the usual book-name, of Arctietis bin- 
turong, an Indian prehensile-tailed carnivorous 
mammal of the family Vwerridai and subfamily 
Arctictidinw. Also called Ictides ater or /. at- 
bifrons, and formerly Viverra binturong. See 
Arctietis. 
binuclear (bi-nu'kle-ar), a. [< fit- 2 + nuclear.] 
Having two nuclei or central points. 
binucleate (bi-nu'kle-at), a. [< W- 2 + nucle- 
ate.] Having two nuclei, as a cell. 
binucleolate (bi-nu'klf-6-lat), a. [< ftp + 
nucleolate.] In biol., having two nucleoli: ap- 
plied to cells. 
bio-. [NL. etc. bio-, < Gr. /3/of, life, akin to L. 
vivus, living (> rita, life: see vivid, vital), = bioera 
Goth, kwius = AS. cwicu, E. quick, living : see ,",* 
quick.'] An element in many compound words, 
chiefly scientific, meaning life. 
bio-bibliographical (bl"6-bib"li-o-graf i-kal), 
a. [< Gr. fiiof, life 
ing of or dealing 
writings of an author. 
bioblast (bi' 6 -blast), n. [< Gr. /3/o f , life, + 
if, a germ, (. [iAaardveiv, bud, sprout, grow.] 
same mogenesisc. biologically (bl-o-loj'i-kal-i), adv. In a biologi- 
blOgeny Jbi-oj e-ni) . [< Gr By bfe + "J^^ Wording to the doctrines or prin- 
-ycveia, generation: see -geny. Cf. biogenesis.] 
1. The genesis or evolution of the forms of 
cal manner ; according to the doctrines or prin- 
ciples of biology. 
That which was physically defined as a moving equilib- 
ly as a balance of functions. 
//. Spencer, Data of Ethics, 39. 
rium we define biologically as a balance of functions. 
matter which manifest the phenomena of life. 
It is divided into two main branches : ontogeny, or the 
genesis of the individual organism, and phytogeny, or the 
genesis of the species, race, stock, or tribe to which the 
individual belongs. Also biogenesis. 
2. The science or doctrine of biogenesis; the 
history of organic evolution. As in the preced- 
ing sense, it is divided into ontogeny, or germ-history, or biologist (bl-ol O-jist), . [< biology + -1st.] 
the history of the embryological development of the indi- One skilled in, or a student of, biology. 
iDecieJ? biologizet (bi-ol'o-jiz), v. t. [< biology + -ize.] 
Ethics, if positive, must rest on some empirical data. 
These data are furnished partly by history, partly by hu- 
man nature, either biologically or psychologically consid- 
ered. -V. A. Rev., CXX. 255. 
sidiary science of pathology. On the other hand, Biftgeny 
One who writes a biography, or an account of 
the life and actions of a particular person; a 
T'jT*""" V-l Y- 7l ?~i rn~"~i' writer of lives. 
life, + bibhogniphical.] Treat- biographic (bl-o-graf 'ik), . [< biography + -ic.] 
the Pertaining to or of the nature of biography. 
To all which questions, not unessential in a biographic 
work, mere conjecture must for most part return answer. 
fjf.uu i u^, u> germ, \ fj/mu HJ.VLLV. (Jim, ouiuuu, giv** . j Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 95. 
In biol., a formative cell of any kind ; a minute biographical (bi-6-graf 'i-kal), a. Relating or 
mass of bioplasm or protoplasm about to be- 
come a definite cell of any kind. Thus, osteoblasts, 
white blood-corpuscles or leucocytes, lymph-corpuscles, 
etc., are all biohlaste. 
bioblastic (bi-o-blas'tik), a. [< bioblast + -ic.] 
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of bioblasts. 
biocellate (bi-o-sel'at), a. [< ii- 2 + ocellate.] 
pertaining to the life of an individual; dealing 
with or containing biographies : as, biographi- 
cal details ; a biographical dictionary. 
The historian should rarely digress into biographical 
particulars except in as far as they contribute to the 
clearness of his narrative of political occurrences. 
Sir J. Mackintosh, Sir Thos. More. 
n. One who prac- 
tises~mesmerism. 
biologie, < Gr. /3/of, 
,k (see -ology) ; cf. Gr. 
who represents to the 
" life and living things 
in the widest sense; the body of doctrine re- 
specting living beings; the knowledge of vital 
phenomena. 
It is remarkable that each of these writers [Treviranus 
and Lamarck] seems to have been led, independently and 
contemporaneously, to invent the same name of ISiology 
for the science of the phenomena of life. . . . And it is 
hard to say whether Lamarck or Treviranus has the pri- 
ority. . . . Though the first volume of Treviranus' " Bio- 
logie " appeared only in 1802, he says . . . that he wrote 
the first volume . . . about 1798. The " Recherches," 
etc., in which, the outlines of Lamarck's doctrines are 
given, was published in 1802. 
Huxley, Science and Culture (Am. ed., 1882), p. 302. 
2. In a more special sense, physiology; bio- 
physiology; biotics. 3. In a technical sense, 
the life-history of an animal : especially used 
biochemic (bi-o-kem'ik), a. [< Gr. ftiof, life, + 
chemic.] Of or pertaining to the chemistry of 
netism, so called. Von Keicltenbach. 
biodynamic (bi'o-di-nam'ik), a. [< Gr. fiiof, 
life, + dynamic.] Of or pertaining to the doc- 
trine of vital force or energy ; biophysiological. 
Want of honest heart in the Biographusta of these Saints 
. . . betrayed their pens to such abominable untruths. 
Fuller, Worthies, iii. 
biographize (bi-og'ra-fiz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
biographized, ppr. biographizing. [< biography 
+ -ize.] To write the biography or a history of 
the life of. [Bare.] 
Now do I bless the man who undertook 
These monks and martyrs to biographize. 
Southey, St. Oualberto, st. 25. 
as the resolution of an organism into its constit- 
uent parts, and consequently the destruction 
of the phenomena of life. 
biolytic (bi-o-lit'ik), a. [< Gr. /3/of, life, H 
/.VTIKOC, able' to loose, < /.irnif, verbal adj. of 
7.vtv, loose.] In mod., tending to the destruc- 
tion of life as, a biolytic agent. 
biomagnetic (bi"6-mag-net'ik), a. [< Gr. /3/or, 
life, + magnetic.] Pertaining or relating to 
biomagnetism. 
