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Tellurism. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tellurism [f. L. tellūr-em the earth + -ISM: in sense 1 = Ger. tellurismus, in sense 2 = F. tellurisme.]

1   1.  A magnetic influence or principle supposed by some to pervade all nature and to produce the phenomena of animal magnetism; also the theory of animal magnetism based on this, propounded in 1822 by Kieser in Germany.

2 1832.  Lindley, Introd. Bot., III. iv. 333. The inorganic mass is divided [by Grohmann] into tellurism, atmosphere, and light.

3 1833.  C. F. Hoffman, Winter in Far West (1835), II. 286, note. The art of discovering veins of water concealed in the bowels of the earth, by a direct perception of their existence, is mentioned by Kieser in his System of Tellurism as existing from the most remote periods.

4 1843.  Hartshorn, trans. Deleuze’s Anim. Magn., x. 209. There are in magnetism two different actions. One which depends upon a vital principle spread throughout nature, and circulating in all bodies;… the first sort of magnetism, which he calls tellurism or siderism.

5 1849.  S. R. Maitland, Illustr. Mesmerism, 63. They [the Ancients] did not write systems of Animal Magnetism, or Tellurism, or Geisterkunde.

6   2.  Influence of the soil in producing disease.

7 1890.  in Billings, Nat. Med. Dict.

8 1899.  in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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