English

Noun

fossilism ‎(uncountable)

1. The science or state of fossils.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine […]

2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.