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monogenist|məˈnɒdʒɪnɪst|
[f. mono- + -gen + -ist. So F. monogéniste.]
1. One who believes or maintains the theory of the origin of mankind from a single pair.
1857Gliddon in Nott & G. Indig. Races 402 The Monogenists and the Polygenists: being an exposition of the doctrines of schools professing to sustain dogmatically the Unity or the Diversity of human races. 1865Huxley in Fortn. Rev. I. 273 According to the Monogenists, all mankind have sprung from a single pair. 1875Tylor in Encycl. Brit. II. 114/1 The monogenist has claimed all mankind to be descended from one original stock, and generally from a single pair.
attrib.1865Huxley in Fortn. Rev. I. 273 The Monogenist hypotheses. 1883Tylor in Nature 3 May 8/2 Prichard, the leader of the monogenist school forty years ago. 1888Cave Inspir. O. Test. ii. 103 A monogenist argument.
2. One who maintains the unity of origin of living beings.
1868Owen Anat. III. 817 To meet the inevitable question of ‘Whence the first organic matter?’ the Monogenist is reduced to enumerate the existing elements into which the simplest living jelly..or sarcode..is resolvable.
Hence monogeˈnistic a., pertaining to monogenists or monogenism.
1865Reader 11 Feb. 162/3 A consideration of the monogenistic and polygenistic theories of the origin of man. 1865Huxley in Fortn. Rev. I. 275 Combining all that is good in the Monogenistic and Polygenistic schools. 1890― in 19th Cent. July 754 Their judgment was often unconsciously warped by strong monogenistic proclivities. |