a. rare. [ad. L. biōtic-us, a. G. βιωτικός pertaining to life, f. βίος life.]
† 1. Of or pertaining to (common) life, secular.
1600. J. Melvill, Diary (1842), 331. The quhilk to serve for all those biotik matters, I thought weil to be heir insert.
2. Of animal life; vital. So Biotical.
1874. Martin, Keil’s Min. Proph., I. 408. The idea that there is a biotic rapport between man and the larger domestic animals.
1847. Carpenter, in Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., III. 151. Organization and biotical functions arise from the natural operations of forces inherent in elemental matter.
1882. Pop. Sc. Monthly, XXII. 168. The phenomena of irritability, assimilation, growth, and reproduction, which we may comprehensively designate as biotical.
