Molecula

Origin

From .

Full definition of molecula

Noun

1. (now historical) A molecule; a small particle of something. from 18th c.
• 1751, John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy, XII:Smal bodies, of Atoms, out of whose various combinations bigger molleculæ are made.
• 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p.They acted by the ancient organized states in the shape of their old organization, and not by the organic moleculae of a disbanded people.----