Exosmose

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  • n. Archaic form of exosmosis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids through membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See osmose.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as exosmosis.
  • Word Usage
    "He has nothing more for you, nor you for him; but he may be rich in juices wherewithal to nourish the heart of another man, and their two lives, set together, may have an endosmose and exosmose whose result shall be richness of soil, grandeur of growth, beauty of foliage, and perfectness of fruit; while you and he would only have languished into aridity and a stunted crab-tree."
    Antonym
    endosmose   
    Variant
    osmose