Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In therapeutics, the Swedish movement-cure; kinesitherapy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See
kinesiatrics .
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Nevertheless there is a tinge of quis-lingism in his attitude, which comes out in the ending of Part I and slightly interferes with the allegory.
Collected Essays 1900
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