schematism noun. ['ski:mǝtɪz(ǝ)m] E17.
[mod. Latin schematismus from Greek skhēmatismos the assumption of a certain form or appearance, from skhēmat-: see SCHEMA, -ISM.]
1. The use of a figure of speech. Only in E17.

2. A mode of arrangement of parts or particles; inner structure. Now rare or obsolete. M17.

3. A schematic or stereotyped arrangement, form, idea, or (method of) presentation. E18.
Scientific American A mental mechanics as precise..as the innate schematism posited by Chomsky.

4. Philosophy & Psychology. The employment of a schema or schemata in cognition. Cf. SCHEMA 1. L18.

■ schematist noun (rare) the inventor of a doctrinal system L17.

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