English

Noun

theinism ‎(uncountable) (pathology)

1. theism
   • 1946 January, Norman, Hubert J., “Desultory thoughts on alcohol and on drugs”, in British Journal of Inebriety, volume 43, number 2, London: Society for the Study of Inebriety, DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1946.tb05441.x, page 50:

     […] this special form of addiction is described as theism—which word has not, of course, any connection with the similar theological term but is derived from theine, […] Perhaps a better form of the word, in order to avoid ambiguity, is theinism.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:theinism.

References

• "theinism", in George M. Gould, R J E Scott, The practitioner's medical dictionary, 3rd ed., rev. and enl., Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son, 1919, p. 883. OCLC 894192275.