infusionism

English

Etymology

From infusion +‎ -ism.

Noun

infusionism (uncountable)

1. The doctrine that the soul exists before the body and is infused into it at conception or birth.

See also

• creationism
• traducianism

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infusionism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)