Antedating of "Inorganic"

[Fred Shapiro]

inorganic (OED 1794)

1729 Daniel Turner _A Discourse Concerning Gleets_ 81 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  _Chance cannot make an Organic Body._ Nor an
_Inorganic_ neither, which if it can or cannot, is as little.

Fred Shapiro



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