Plural of 'atomy': tiny creatures, atoms, or insignificant people; fragments or particles.
From atomy (an archaic or poetic form of 'atom'). Used in older English literature to mean very small beings, as in Shakespeare who uses it to describe tiny, insignificant people.
Shakespeare loved the word 'atomies'—he used it to mock people as insignificant specks, but the joke is that atoms are actually the most fundamental building blocks of everything.
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