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Webster 1913 Edition
Galvanism
Gal′va-nism
,Noun.
(Physics)
(a)
Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
(b)
The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
☞ The words galvanism and galvanic, formerly in very general use, are now rarely employed. For the latter, voltaic, from the name of Volta, is commonly used.
Webster 1828 Edition
Galvanism
GAL'VANISM
,Noun.
Electrical phenomena in which the electricity is developed without the aid of friction, and in which a chimical action takes place between certain bodies.
Galvanism is heat, light, electricity and magnetism, united in combination or in simultaneous action; sometimes one and sometimes another of them predominating, and thus producing more or less all the effects of each: usual means of excitement, contact of dissimilar bodies, especially of metals and fluids.