By this substitution of a sure job for a possible masterpiece, military science made a deliberate sacrifice of capacity in order to reduce the uncertain element, the bionomic factor, in enlisted humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

The goal towards which the fundamental bionomic forces were driving was everywhere the same, but the particulars varied widely with the geographical, ethnic and traditional circumstances, and their immediate interpretations were even more diverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

But Rothschild’s book is still probably the best case yet made for the biological analogy, what the author calls “the bionomic perspective.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference