[f. Volta (see VOLTAIC a.) + -ISM.] The production of an electric current by the chemical action of a liquid on metals; galvanism as produced by Volta’s methods.
1811. R. Turner, Arts & Sci., xxix. 271. In voltaism, it is necessary that the bodies by which it is exhibited should have some chemical agency on each other.
1826. Good, Bk. Nat. (1834), I. 219. Every one has now some knowledge of Galvanism and Voltaism.
1844. Noad, Electricity (ed. 2), 132. That remarkable form of Electricity, known by the name of Galvanism or Voltaism.
