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inorganic (iou) and Coptic Orthodox Church (sh)


inorganic (iou)



inorganic adjective & noun. L18.
[from IN-3 + ORGANIC.]
A. adjective.
a. Not having the characteristics of living organisms; inanimate; not composed of or derived from living matter. L18.
b. Chemistry. Orig., of, pertaining to, or designating substances not derived from or found in living organisms. Now, of, pertaining to, or designating substances which do not contain carbon (except in some simple cases: see note below). Cf. ORGANIC adjective 4b. M19.
inorganic chemistry the branch of chemistry that deals with the properties and reactions of inorganic substances.
Not provided with or acting by bodily organs. E19.
Shelley Speak Spirit! from thine inorganic voice I only know that thou Art moving near.
Not arising or growing naturally from an organization or structure; artificial; extraneous. M19.
Without organization or systematic arrangement. M19.
b. noun. Chemistry. An inorganic chemical. M20.
? Simple compounds of carbon, as oxides, carbonates, carbides, and forms of the pure element, as diamond and graphite, are classed as inorganic.
inorganical adjective (a) = INORGANIC adjective 2; (b) = INORGANIC adjective 1: only in 17.
inorganically adverb (a) without (Reference to) organization; (b) not by the action of living organisms: L17.

Coptic Orthodox Church (sh)




Principal Christian church in Egypt.

Until the 19th century it was called simply the Egyptian Church. It agrees doctrinally with Eastern Orthodoxy except that it holds that Jesus has a purely divine Nature and never became human, a belief the Council of Chalcedon rejected (see Monophysite heresy) in AD 451. After the Arab conquest (7th century), service books were written with Coptic and Arabic in parallel texts. Church government is democratic, and the patriarch, who resides in Cairo, is elected. There are congregations outside Egypt, especially in Australia and the U.S., and the church is in communion with the Ethiopian, Armenian, and Syrian Jacobite churches.