Definition of Organec
Or*gan"ic (?), a. [L. organicus,
Gr. &?;: cf. F. organique.] 1. (Biol.)
Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects
composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the
organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters
peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies,
organic life, organic remains. Cf.
Inorganic.
2. Produced by the organs; as, organic
pleasure. [R.]
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of
nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
[R.]
Those organic arts which enable men to
discourse and write perspicuously. Milton.
4. Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence:
Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting
from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his
love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
5. Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the
large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected
with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial
production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; --
contrasted with inorganic.
&fist; The principles of organic and inorganic chemistry are
identical; but the enormous number and the completeness of related
series of organic compounds, together with their remarkable facility
of exchange and substitution, offer an illustration of chemical
reaction and homology not to be paralleled in inorganic
chemistry.
Organic analysis (Chem.), the
analysis of organic compounds, concerned chiefly with the
determination of carbon as carbon dioxide, hydrogen as water, oxygen
as the difference between the sum of the others and 100 per cent, and
nitrogen as free nitrogen, ammonia, or nitric oxide; -- formerly
called ultimate analysis, in distinction from proximate
analysis. -- Organic chemistry. See
under Chemistry. -- Organic compounds.
(Chem.) See Carbon compounds, under
Carbon. -- Organic description of a
curve (Geom.), the description of a curve on a
plane by means of instruments. Brande & C. --
Organic disease (Med.), a disease
attended with morbid changes in the structure of the organs of the
body or in the composition of its fluids; -- opposed to functional
disease. -- Organic electricity. See
under Electricity. -- Organic
law or laws, a law or system of laws, or
declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and
organization of a political or other association; a
constitution. -- Organic stricture
(Med.), a contraction of one of the natural passages of
the body produced by structural changes in its walls, as
distinguished from a spasmodic stricture, which is due to
muscular contraction.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- pertaining to, derived from, like, of the nature of, an organ (in any sense)
- in chemistry, relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products
- of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agro-chemicals, and possibly certified organic by a regulatory body.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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