It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

The first use of the term " anthropology " in English to refer to a natural science of humanity was apparently in 1593, the first of the " logies " to be coined.

The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 1914 ).

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

In approximately 450 BCE, Democritus coined the term átomos (), which means " uncuttable " or " the smallest indivisible particle of matter ".

The term isotope was coined by Margaret Todd as a suitable name for different atoms that belong to the same element.

While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),

The term " orbital " was coined by Robert Mulliken in 1932.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined.

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

One could assume the new term was coined and adopted by Athenian democrats.

The term " allophone " was coined by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s.

The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term " approval voting.

Before Peter Ladefoged coined the term " approximant " in the 1960s the term " frictionless continuant " referred to non-lateral approximants.

The term avionics was coined by journalist Philip J. Klass as a portmanteau of aviation electronics.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

The term " aesthetics " was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik ( modern spelling Ästhetik ) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735.

The term was coined by Michael Dummett, who introduced it in his paper Realism to re-examine a number of classical philosophical disputes involving such doctrines as nominalism, conceptual realism, idealism and phenomenalism.

A United States Army acronym standing for Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research believed to be coined by a member of the Headquarters, Department of the Army Staff in the early 1970s.

Maha Ati is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa, a master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.

The term ' Protestant Buddhism ,' coined by scholar Gananath Obeyesekere, is often applied to Dharmapala's form of Buddhism.

The term Nikāya Buddhism was coined by Dr. Masatoshi Nagatomi, in order to find a more acceptable ( less derogatory ) term than Hinayana to refer to the early Buddhist schools.

The term was coined by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh ( known as Thay to his students ), inspired by the Humanistic Buddhism reform movement in China by Taixu and Yinshun, and later propagated in Taiwan by Cheng Yen and Hsing Yun.

In physics, the Eightfold Way is a term coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann for a theory organizing subatomic baryons and mesons into octets ( alluding to the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism ).

Chögyam Trungpa coined the term spiritual materialism with his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism from talks explaining Buddhism given while opening the Karma Dzong meditation center in Boulder, Colorado.

The term shinbutsu shūgō itself was coined during the early modern era ( 17th century ) to refer to the amalgamation of kami and buddhas in general, as opposed to specific currents within Buddhism which did the same, e. g. Ryōbu Shintō and Sannō Shintō.

The term " Shinto " itself was coined in the 6th century to differentiate the loosely organized local religion from imported Buddhism.

The descriptive term for the smallest living biological structure was coined by Robert Hooke in a book he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms monks lived in .< ref name =" Hooke ">"< cite >...

Ulric Neisser coined the term " cognitive psychology " in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967 wherein Neisser provides a definition of cognitive psychology characterizing people as dynamic information-processing systems whose mental operations might be described in computational terms.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

The term " ecology " () is of a more recent origin and was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( 1866 ).

Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land.

The term was coined by Reformed Baptist pastor John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God.

Ted Nelson ( who had also originated the words " hypertext " and " hypermedia ") coined the term " transclusion " in his 1982 book, Literary Machines.

Hierarchiology is the term coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, originator of the Peter Principle described in his humorous book of the same name, to refer to the study of hierarchical organizations and the behavior of their members.

In contrast to this view, some I – O psychologists believe that employees engage in OCBs as a form of " impression management ," a term coined by Erving Goffman in his 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

In his book, Rhine popularized the word " parapsychology ," which psychologist Max Dessoir had coined over 40 years earlier, to describe the research conducted at Duke.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

The technique is common in superhero comics, where it has been used so frequently that the term comic book death has been coined for it.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

Darwin's book legitimised scientific discussion of evolutionary mechanisms, and the newly coined term Darwinism was used to cover the whole range of evolutionism, not just his own ideas.

In 1998, Jewish theologian Zachary Braiterman coined the term anti-theodicy in his book ( God ) After Auschwitz to describe Jews, both in a Biblical and post-Holocaust context, whose response to the problem of evil is protest and refusal to investigate the relationship between God and suffering.

The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean.

The terms uniformitarianism for this idea, and catastrophism for the opposing viewpoint, were coined by William Whewell in a review of Lyell's book.

In the " Definitions " chapter of Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, under the definition of " collective " Jung references representations collectives, a term coined by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl in his 1910 book How Natives Think.

The term was coined by Bertrand Meyer in connection with his design of the Eiffel programming language and first described in various articles starting in 1986 and the two successive editions ( 1988, 1997 ) of his book Object-Oriented Software Construction.

In his book Asylums, Erving Goffman coined the term ' Total Institution ' for mental hospitals and similar places which took over and confined a person's whole life.

The term was coined in 1914 by Friedrich von Wieser in his book "".

Landon Jones, who coined the term " baby boomer " in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1943 through 1960, when annual births increased over 4, 000, 000.

According to the book A History of Murphy's Law by author Nick T. Spark, differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who first coined the saying Murphy's law.