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developmental, a.|dɪˌvɛləpˈmɛntəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining, or incidental to development; evolutionary.
developmental disease, a disease which is associated with a stage or process in the development of the body.
1849Owen Parthenogenesis 8 So much of the primary developmental processes. 1859Darwin Orig. Species xiv. (1873) 390 Sometimes it is only the earlier developmental stages which fail. 1864Daily Tel. 27 July, Deaths by convulsions rose from 38 to 71..by developmental diseases of children from 24 to 42. 1883Birm. Weekly Post 11 Aug. 3/6 One of the diseases, so called, of the developmental class—viz., senile decay. 1884Knowledge No. 160. 421 They are interesting from a developmental point of view. 1890Humphry Old Age 5 A developmental or physiological death terminates the developmental or physiological decay.
Hence developˈmentalist, an evolutionist. Also attrib.
1862Temple Bar Mag. V. 215 According to the developmentalists..the various races of men..gradually developed themselves in the progress of ages, from lower forms of animal life. 1936M. T. Hodgen Doctrine of Survivals iii. 72 All developmentalists were committed to the search for social origins. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 524/1 Questions for which the current developmentalist methodology has no answer. 1957Antiquity XXXI. 215 Opposition to the independent developmentalists came from those who could demonstrate..the diffusion of certain traits. |