fossilism
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- The science or state of fossils.
- April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle
- I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine […]
- April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle
- The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
- A policy of reliance on fossil fuels.
- 1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41:
- Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.