organizable (organizabl)

[ H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol. (Amer. ed., 1872), App., p. 483. organizatet, a. [ Death our spirits doth release From this distinguish'd organizate sense. Dr. H. More , Præexistency of the Soul, st. 21. ( Davies .) organization (ôr gan-i-zā'shon), n . [= F. or gan is at i on = Sp. organizacion = Pg. organ is ação = It. organizzazione ; as organize + -ation .] 1. The act of organizing, or the proce of disposing or arranging constituent or interdependent parts into an organic whole. (a) The proce of rendering organic, in any sense. Socially, as well as individually, organization is indispensable to growth; beyond a certain point there cannot be further growth without further organization . H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 65. (b) The proce of arranging or systematizing; specifically, the proce of combining parts into a coordinated whole: as, organization of an expedition. Philosophy, with him [Hegel], lies quite out of the range of common sense-which is merely the organization of sensible experiences. J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. 124. 2. That which is organized; a regularly constituted whole or aggregate; an organism, or a systematized and regulated whole; any body which has a definite constitution: often used specifically of an organized body of persons, as a literary society, club, corporation, etc. Such was the intelligence, the gravity, and the self-com mand of the warriors whom Cromwell had trained, that in their camp a political organization and a religious organ zati on could exist without destroying military organization. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., i. The body is a healthful and beautiful organization only when the principle of life acts generously through all its parts. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 199. A moribund organization , to which few known writers belong, and before which dry-as-dust papers are semi-occasionally read. Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 843. IMG:content-1837.png:[blocks in formation] General discriminative power probably implies from the J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 145. first a fine organisation of brain whole. Also spelled organisation . organize (organ-iz), v.; pret. and pp. organized, org a no plastic gans of touch, taste, and smell.-2. Susceptible of receiving an impre ion; plastic. Dunglison.