Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hylozoism \Hy`lo*zo"ism\, n. [Gr. ? wood, matter + ? life, fr. ?
   to live: cf. F. hylozo["i]sme.]
   The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and
   sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.]
   --Cudworth.