Definition of Routinism

1. n. the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.

Definition of Routinism

1. Noun. prevalence of, or domination by routine ¹

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Definition of Routinism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Routinism

routinary
routined
routinely
routineness
routines
routing
routing number
routing numbers
routing slip
routings
routinise
routinised
routinises
routinising
routinism (current term)
routinisms
routinist
routinists
routinization
routinizations
routinize
routinized
routinizes
routinizing
routish
routous
routously
routs
rouvilleite

Literary usage of Routinism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Fever: Delivered in the Theatre of the Meath Hospital and County by William Stokes (1876)
"... to be deprecated—Fallacies of the numerical system in therapeutics—History of routinism—Its results—Description of ..."

2. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"Dare any one say, unless this physician abandon his routinism and his automatism in minor cases, that he will not in time win a reputation of indifference ..."

3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1863)
"true to the undying instincts of routinism, you call for a bandage and ... You have not taken away enough blood, whispers the fatal delusion, routinism! ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics by Gunning S. Bedford (1868)
"You have not taken away blood enough, whispers that fatal delusion—routinism! The ligature is again applied, the orifice opened, and slowly runs the current ..."

5. The Principles and practice of obstetrics by Gunning S. Bedford (1869)
"Here, then, is your patient, in gestation, and attacked with convulsions ; the instant you approach her—true to th« undying instincts of routinism, ..."

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