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combining form of Gr. νέος, new (as in νεόγαµος newly married, νεογενής newborn), common in recent use as a prefix to adjs. and ns.
1. a. In combs. denoting a new or modern form of some doctrine, belief, practice, language, etc., or designating those who advocate, adopt, or use it, as neo-American adj., neo-Anglican, neo-Anglicanism, neo-Aramaic adj., neo-Aristotelian adj. and n., neo-Aristotelianism, neo-Babylonian adj., neo-barbarism, neo-baroque adj., neo-behaviourism, neo-behaviourist, -istic adjs., neo-Bloomfieldian adj., neo-Buddhist adj. and n., neo-Buddhistic adj., neo-Calvinism, neo-capitalism, neo-capitalist adj., neo-Catholic adj. and n., neo-Catholicism, neo-Christian adj. and n., neo-Christianity, etc., neo-Confucian adj., neo-Confucianism, neo-conservatism, neo-conservative adj. and n., neo-critic, neo-critical adj., neo-criticist, neo-Dada, neo-Dadaism, neo-Darwinian adj. and n., neo-Darwinism, neo-Darwinist, neo-Dixieland adj., neo-Edwardian adj., neo-Elizabethan adj. and n., neo-expressionism, neo-expressionist adj. and n., neo-Fascism, neo-Fascismo, neo-Fascist adj. and n., neo-feminist, neo-Firthian adj. and n., neo-Freudian adj. and n., neo-Freudianism, neo-Gaullism, neo-Gaullist adj. and n., neo-Georgian adj. and n., neo-Georgianism, neo-German, neo-Gothicism, neo-Hegelian adj and n., neo-Hegelianism, neo-Hittite adj. and n., neo-Humboldtian adj. and n., neo-imperial adj., neo-imperialism, neo-imperialist, neo-isolationism, neo-isolationist adj. and n., neo-Kantian (adj.), neo-Kantism, neo-Keynesian adj. and n., neo-Keynesianism, neo-Lamarckian n., neo-Lamarckism, neo-liberal adj., neo-Maoist adj., neo-Marxism, neo-Marxist adj. and n., neo-modal adj., neo-modalism, neo-modality, neo-nationalism, neo-Nazi adj. and n., neo-Nazism, neo-Nietzschean adj., neo-Norman adj., neo-orthodox adj., neo-orthodoxy, neo-paganism, neo-Palladian adj., neo-Pentecostal adj. and n., neo-Pentecostalism, neo-Pentecostalist n. and adj., neo-populism, neo-positivism, neo-positivist adj. and n., neo-primitivism, neo-Pythagorean (n.), neo-realism, neo-realist adj. and n., neo-realistic adj., neo-revisionist adj. and n., neo-rococo adj., neo-Romantic (n.), neo-scholastic adj. and n., neo-scholasticism, neo-slave, neo-slaver, neo-slavery, neo-Stalinism, neo-Stalinist adj. and n., neo-symbolist adj. and n., neo-theosophical adj., neo-Thomism, neo-Thomist adj. and n., neo-Tory, neo-Toryism, neo-traditionalism, neo-Tudor adj., neo-Victorian adj. and n., neo-vitalism, neo-vitalist adj. and n., neo-vitalistic adj.
The number of such formations is practically unlimited, and only some of the more prominent or typical are illustrated here. Similar forms are also current in French (as néo-catholique, -chrétien, -grec, -latin, etc.) and the other Romance languages.
1904Amer. Naturalist XXXVIII. 682 The *Neo-American nomenclature is adopted—with synonymic citation where the generic name is unfamiliar to the ordinary reader. 1970I. Reed in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 334 So sez d neoamerican hoodoo Church of free spirits.
1894L. Tollemache in Jrnl. Educ. 1 Feb. 126 Matthew Arnold was a good *Neo-Anglican.
1859Kingsley Yeast (ed. 4) Pref. 10, I have said, that *Neo-Anglicanism has proved a failure, as seventeenth-century Anglicanism did.
1948D. Diringer Alphabet 289 The east-Syrian or *neo-Aramaic dialect.
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 561/1 The attempt to apply the *neo-Aristotlean [sic] rules was..doomed to failure. 1947College English VIII. 403 We should not leave the new critics without notice of the neo-Aristotelians who do not accept fellowship with the new critics, nor with the neo-Thomists. 1953R. S. Crane Languages of Criticism 149 It is not a question of..looking upon ourselves, in any exclusive sense, as forming an ‘Aristotelian’ or ‘Neo-Aristotelian’ school. 1962W. S. Scott Five Approaches of Lit. Criticism 183 He also arraigns the ‘Neo-Aristotelians’ for going outside the poem—not to history, psychology, or morality, but to a theory of the genre.
1952R. S. Crane Critics & Criticism 2 A particular philosophic dogma the nature of which has been defined..as Aristotelianism or *neo-Aristotelianism.
1915L. W. King Hist. Babylonia II. 278 Nebuchadnezzar..established the *Neo-Babylonian empire on a firm basis. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1054/1 Reliefs in glazed brick of the neo-Babylonian revival.
1892Mahaffy Rambles & Stud. 15 *Neo-barbarism means the occurrence in later times of the manners and customs which generally mark very old and primitive times.
1966Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 17/3 ‘The Rake's Progress’..is either one of the most enigmatic or the most straight forward, according to the view you take of its neo-rococo or *neo-baroque idiom. 1970Canadian Antiques Collector June 10/1 His execution of neo-baroque designs to some degree anticipates the Victorian penchant for period revivals.
1967Philos. Rev. LXXVI. 97 The stimulus-response (S-R) theories of *neo-behaviorism.
1964Listener 14 May 785/2 Watsonian Behaviourism is..the foundation on which the..*neo-Behaviourist systems of Professor Guthrie, Clark Hull, and Skinner were built.
1952Mind LXI. 349 In The Concept of Mind Professor Gilbert Ryle has presented us with a *neo-behaviouristic theory.
1964Language XL. 265 Weinreich rejects..the hard-boiled *neo-Bloomfieldian behaviorism of such philosophers as Carnap and Quine.
1891Literary World 17 Apr. 357/1 The extracts we have given serve to show the dogmatic assertiveness of the *Neo-Buddhist philosophy. 1972Times of India 28 Nov. 11/3 A majority of them come from the Scheduled Castes. Many say they are neo-Buddhists.
1896A. H. Keane Ethnology xiii. 346 There is something similar in the *Neo-Buddhistic teachings.
1854J. Guthrie in Evang. Union Worthies (1883) 322 Calvinism and *Neo-Calvinism.
1968Economist 20 July 25/3 By *neocapitalism they mean the new type of industrial economy dominated by the very large industries.
Ibid., An educational system which they look upon as the instrument of ‘*neocapitalist’ oppression.
1842Mill Let. 10 Jan. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 497 Our *neo-Catholic school at [Oxf]ord. 1867–71Froude Short Stud. II. 145 The Neo-Catholics of our own day. 1956K. Clark Nude viii. 333 The neo-Catholic doctrines of his [sc. Rouault's] friend Leon Bloy, by which in the lukewarm, materialistic society of 1900, absolute degradation came closer to redemption than worldly compromise.
1876E. Mellor Priesthood viii. 393 The *Neo-Catholicism of the Church of England.
1882Seeley Nat. Relig. 116 The *Neochristian.., if he is not provoked by argument, gradually forgets his crotchet. 1910Wyndham Lewis Lett. (1963) 44 He [sc. Masefield] makes Pompey a sort of Tolstoyan or neo-Christian hero.
1882Seeley Nat. Relig. 115 A *Neochristianism must inevitably arise.
1860F. Harrison in Westm. Rev. Oct. 293 *Neo-Christianity. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel Pref. 27 Some⁓where between Genesis and Revelation, but probably, according to the neo-Christianity, to the exclusion of both.
1948Mind LVII. 535 Dr. Fung..does not, like many Chinese and most Occidental expositors, make Confucius teach medieval *Neo-Confucian doctrine.
Ibid., Fung continues Chinese traditions by attempting to bring up to date medieval *Neo-Confucianism.
1960Encounter Nov. 78/1 If anything can render *neo-conservatism intellectually respectable, it is writing of this kind.
1964K. Winetrout in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 151 They can turn to Russell Kirk and his fellow *neo-conservatives. 1971Time 23 Aug. 31 Judaism and Christianity have always placed primacy in man. Now this primacy is being attacked by what I call the neoconservative ecological approach to life.
1865W. Kay Crisis Hupfeld. 3 The philology of the *neo-critics is..conjectural and arbitrary.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 357/2 Though it may be short on *neo-critical know-how, it will provide valuable ammunition for the literary gamesman.
1925*Neo-criticist [see empirio-critical a.].
1962Times 8 Mar. 16/7 The *neo-dada work of which Rauschenberg's ‘combine-paintings’ (i.e. collages) are the only example here. 1966Times 16 July 7 Perhaps a change in the air encouraged..the recent revival of surrealism and *neo-Dadaism.
1895G. J. Romanes Darwin II. iii. 61 The *Neo-Darwinian doctrine of the absolute non-inheritance of acquired characters. Ibid. 10 The Neo-Darwinians strain the teachings of Darwin.
1902J. M. Baldwin Development & Evol. 135 The possible truth of either of the current doctrines of heredity, called *Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckism respectively. 1970Observer (Colour Suppl.) 15 Feb. 18/1 All that neo-Darwinism does at present, the critics say, is to pronounce that ‘what survives, survives’.
1895G. J. Romanes Darwin II. 28, I am not a *Neo-Darwinist, and so have no desire to make ‘natural selection’ synonymous with ‘natural causation’. 1972Listener 3 Aug. 138/2 You have said one or two things which would be regarded by neo-Darwinists as treasonable.
1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz vii. 235 The conventional *neo-Dixieland jazz of the Eddie Condon variety.
1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 80 There is other evidence for *Neo-Druidism, as it may be termed.
1947‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder iv. 84 The hair brushed up from the back in the *neo-Edwardian manner.
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 495 A *Neo-Egyptian style came into vogue.
1909Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 7/1 Mr. Figgis is enlightened enough to be a *neo-Elizabethan. 1924R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 29 Don't cramp my neo-Elizabethan manner. 1958Listener 3 July 23/3 Conditions would exist that would justify a renewal of the nexus between Church and State; there might be a sort of neo-Elizabethan settlement. 1962Guardian 20 Feb. 5/2 An antiquated system more in keeping with Victoria than with neo-Elizabethan England.
1961*Neo-Expressionism [see Neo-Liberty].
1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art 171 The occasional gaunt landscapes by young French *neo-expressionists such as Bernard Buffet or Raymond Guerrier. 1968N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 25 Landscape and other subjects are handled by Miss Rosenberger as a series of neoexpressionist clichés.
1946Commonweal (N.Y.) 1 Feb. 398/2 (title) *Neo-fascism: Italian sample. 1973Guardian 20 June 14 As neofascism under the leadership of Giorgio Almirante makes new gains, suspicions and fears are once again rife in Italy.
1928Observer 29 Jan. 17/1 Herein lies an incident of neo-Fascismo which has no controversial element.
1944Birmingham (Alabama) News 28 June 8/5 The Germans had dissolved the *Neofascist movement in Northern Italy. 1944H. McCloy Panic 143 She—or rather he—is a neo-Fascist and Nazi sympathizer. 1972Guardian 17 Feb. 2/5 Seven people are now in Milan prison in connection with recent neo-Fascist activities.
1969Harper's Mag. Nov. 28 ‘Are you still against abortion?’ Ellen Willis asks, alluding to a position I had once taken which gave me, for a time, some small notoriety among the rest of the *neo-feminists.
1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics p. xix, Several of the principles taught by [J. R.] Firth..are continued in the work of those who are coming to be known as ‘*neo-Firthians’. 1964Language XL. 305 The term ‘neo-Firthian linguistics’ may be suggested to characterize the recent work of M. A. K. Halliday, R. M. Dixon, and others.
1948L. Schneider Freudian Psychol. & Veblen's Social Theory v. 166 Some of the work of the *neo-Freudians..suggests that the strain in Freud above referred to has not quite been eliminated. Ibid. 173 This lacuna in neo-Freudian literature is..quite evident in Fromm's Escape From Freedom. 1959Neo-Freudian [see biologistic a.].
1958W. J. H. Sprott Human Groups iv. 64 The ‘*neo-Freudianism’ of Karen Horney.
1958Spectator 6 June 720/2 A *neo-Gaullism that has little to do with anything he [sc. General de Gaulle] has sought to represent.
1958Ibid. 30 May 677/1 All the *neo-Gaullists who have been utilised by M. Soustelle to create the situation in which the General [sc. de Gaulle] is invited to act as supreme arbitrator. 1958Times 19 Dec. 8/1 The innovation was proposed by the leader of the neo-Gaullist Union for the New Republic.
1915Truth 24 Mar. 459/2 Essentially early nineteenth century in character, he was hopelessly out of his element in this *neo-Georgian era. 1923Hardy Coll. Poems (ed. 2) 525 The launching of a volume of this kind in neo-Georgian days by one who began writing in mid-Victorian, and has published nothing to speak of for some years, may seem to call for a few words of excuse or explanation. 1923W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xix. 195 The Jinkses with their drink-philosophy, their blatant motor-bike, their stout insensitiveness, were Neo-Georgians. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 130/2 The Kirkgate and the Briggate..cast off their Georgian glory and assumed the Jacobean,..the Perpendicular and the neo-Georgian, in Leeds phorpres brick and stone and terra-cotta. 1955J. Betjeman in R. S. Thomas Song at Year's Turning 12 The ‘wain and stook’ pastoral poetry of the neo-Georgians. 1970English Studies LI. 270 The insipidly ‘pleasant’ strain which..became a conditioned reflex in the ‘neo-Georgian’ ripplings of the Squire-Turner-Freeman school.
1940Scrutiny IX. 289 The ‘simplicity’ of Auden's later manner merges into *neo-Georgianism.
1940Tablet 4 May 421/1 This is the feat attempted only by the *neo-Germans of the two Great Wars.
1892Nation (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 447/1 The New Gallery is not even true to the *neo-Gothic School, who were its first supporters.
1964Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 12 It savours of all the *neo-Gothicism of Sir Walter Scott.
1885W. James Let. 13 Aug. (1920) I. 254 Why don't you have a special ‘*Neo-Hegelian Department’ in ‘Mind’,..which educated readers skip? 1928London Aphrodite Aug. 6 This analysis is carried on so as to involve anyone at all who admits Time as a philosophic symbol, whether he be an academic neo-Hegelian like Bosanquet, or an intelligent one like Croce.
1917Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IX. 300/2 *Neo-Hegelianism is a title which has been given to that current of thought inspired by Hegel and the idealists of Germany which began to make itself felt in British and American philosophy in the third quarter of the 19th century. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Apr. 253 Philosophical tendencies have also influenced the practice of psychology in the course of the nineteenth century: in particular neo-Kantianism, neo-Hegelianism, [etc.].
1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 116 *Neo-Hellenic, as the regenerated language of modern Greece is called to distinguish it from the vulgar Romaic.
1879Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece 79 A genuine instance of what we may call the *Neohellenism of the Renaissance.
1925J. B. Bury et al. Cambr. Anc. Hist. III. p. vii, Dr Hogarth..discusses the successors of the Hittites, and the history and art of the *Neo-Hittite states of North Syria. 1952O. R. Gurney Hittites i. 40 The language and the religion of these ‘Neo-Hittite’ inscriptions are not those of the Hittites of Hattusas. 1964G. Roux Anc. Iraq xvii. 223 We reach, in the extreme north of Syria, the realm of the people called ‘Hieroglyphic Hittites’ or, more simply, ‘Neo-Hittites’. Ibid. 224 It is important to emphasize that there was no break in the transmission of Hittite culture in those regions, and that the term ‘Neo-Hittite’ is no more than a convenient appellation. Ibid. xviii. 245 The Neo-Hittite and Aramaean princes whom Ashurnasirpal had caught by surprise had had time to strengthen themselves.
1952H. Basilius in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 447 (title) *Neo-Humboldtian ethno⁓linguistics. Ibid. 458 The basic point of departure for the Neo-Humboldtians is always Wilhelm von Humboldt's idea that language is simply ‘the human being approaching the objective idea’. 1962Language XXXVIII. 319 Karl-Otto Apel provides an excellent illustration of the interconvertibility of Neo-Humboldtian and Existentialist terminology.
1968N.Y. Times 17 Mar. iv. 12 This analysis could embrace not just *neoimperial China and neoimperial Russia.
1962Listener 5 Apr. 583/2 It does..make sense to regard this *neo-imperialism of the left as an extension of its traditional Little Englanderism. 1971Yearbk. World Affairs XXV. 136 Neo-imperialism is more broadly defined to include the creation and maintenance of an economic sphere of influence by one or more developed countries embracing one or more countries at a very much lower state of economic development.
1967Atlantic Monthly Jan. 55, I believe that, in fact, we are in danger of seeing the isolationists of the 1920s and 1930s replaced by the *neoimperialists, who somehow imagine that the United States has a mandate to impose an American solution the world around.
1952Britannica Bk. of Year 666/2 *Neo-isolationism, an isolationism in which military preparedness plays a part. 1971Atlantic Monthly Jan. 4 Disillusionment about the Indochina War and preoccupation with domestic ills will bring on neoisolationism in the United States.
1950N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 12/1 The *neo-isolationists..propose to retreat to the Western hemisphere, with some outlying bases. 1967Listener 21 Dec. 813/1 People who think we ought not to be in Asia are neo-isolationists. 1971Atlantic Monthly Jan. 4 This month's magazine offers a considerable dose of anti⁓neoisolationist nourishment: two articles on Egypt and the Middle East situation, reports on Berlin, Canada, and China policy; as well as a lighthearted exercise in the ways of England.
1895Zangwill Master iii. ii. 300 The excesses of the *Neo-Japanese school.
a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric iv. (1883) 40 Like the *Neo-Kantians. 1886S. H. Hodgson Let. 23 Nov. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 640 Bradley's Logic..belongs to that Neo-Kantian line of thought from which, except as mental gymnastic, I hope nothing. 1958W. Stark Sociology of Knowledge p. x, Heinrich Rickert was a member of the neo-Kantian school.
1888Pall Mall G. 6 Aug. 11/1 The *Neo-Kantianism of English and French contemporaries.
1904W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism (1912) i. 5 If *neo-Kantism has expelled earlier forms of dualism, we shall have expelled all forms if we are able to expel neo-Kantism in its turn.
1959Encounter Jan. 52/1 *Neo-Keynesian models. 1968Time 25 Oct. 31 [Senator Hubert H.] Humphrey pledges to continue neo-Keynesian policies that have helped stimulate the nation to 7½ years of unprecedented growth in jobs, wages and production. 1970Times 7 Sept. 19 It was also recognized that monetary policy could be effectively exploited for purposes of stabilization policy, and this position is accepted by Neo-Keynesians and monetarists alike.
1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1039/3 It was only towards the end of his life that the *neo-Keynesianism of his professional advisers prevailed.
1884Packard in Stand. Nat. Hist. I. p. liii, In the United States a number of naturalists have advocated what may be called *neo-Lamarckian views of evolution. 1899J. A. Thomson Sci. of Life xvi. 228 The *Neo-Lamarckians have added breadth and subtlety to Lamarckism. 1910Contemp. Rev. Jan. 107 This important factor of direct action, which has been brought so much into prominence by the Neo-Lamarckians.
1884Packard in Stand. Nat. Hist. I. p. liv, We believe in a modified and greatly extended Lamarckianism, or what may be called *neo-Lamarckianism.
1902*Neo-Lamarckism [see neo-Darwinism above].
1966Economist 14 May p. xii/3 The restrictive view of the common market as a strictly *neo-liberal free trade affair would win the day.
1876Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 139 *Neo-Lutheranism..became more and more intolerant.
1970Times 21 Feb. 7 If a *neo-Maoist China is to take shape after the cultural revolution and the ninth congress one can say that it is still very murky and that its institutional life is not in sight yet.
1960Twentieth Cent. May 438 A younger [generation]..is being tempted by very strange gods, including a depressing *neo-Marxism. 1974M. B. Brown Econ. of Imperialism iii. 69 The manifest failure of capitalism to develop industrialization equally throughout the whole world..has raised problems for Marxist analysis which have been the special concern of neo-Marxism. 1986N.Y. Times 31 Aug. vii. 19/1 This new scholarship owes much to European neo-Marxism.
1971Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1621/5 The *neo-Marxist dialectic according to which all institutions and even doctrines are frozen forms of..the ever-flowing, ever-creative, human praxis. 1978Dædalus Fall 101 British student militants were regarded by their German or Parisian counterparts as extraordinarily ignorant of neo-Marxist theory. 1983Financial Times 4 May i. 19 The agreement of the Right-wing Press and neo-Marxists that British management has hacked and clawed its way [etc.].
1881Standard 7 Feb., To Carlyle above all men in England we owe it that *Neo-materialism is not atheistic.
a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) II. 229 Our revived and redeveloped *Neo-mediæval style.
1959D. Cooke Lang. Mus. ii. 76 The austere nature of modal and *neo-modal music.
1930Music & Lett. XI. i. 62 Polytonality or atonality on the one hand, and *neo-modalism on the other, must set the bounds of our next enquiry. 1958Times 6 June 4/4 The neo-modalism of Vaughan Williams nor the neo-primitivism of Carl Orff.
1947Penguin Music Mag. Sept. 11 They needed a stronger purgative, needed a new instrument—*neo-modality, atonality, polytonality, quarter-tonality.
1896H. R. Haweis Dead Pulpit i. 5 The *neo-Mystic Broad Church prophet.
1899W. R. Inge Chr. Mysticism vii. 262 The so-called *neo-mystical school of modern France.
1968N.Y. Times 11 May 13 Signs that ‘middle-class radicalism and *neo-nationalism’ were growing in West Germany.
1950*Neo-Nazi [see neo-Nazism below]. 1952Time 9 June 30 Threateningly resurgent neo-Nazis. 1952Harper's Mag. Dec. 33/1 Fissures are appearing in Communist and neo-Nazi parties. 1973D. Bagley Tightrope Men xxv. 172 Who the hell cares what happens to a lot of neo-Nazis? 1974Washington Post 18 Jan. A29/5 The facade of the Euram Building looks almost neo-Nazi.
1950Britannica Bk. of Year 739/2 *Neo-Nazism, a rightist movement designed to revive former nazi principles and beliefs (1947; neo-Nazi, 1938). 1966Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 17/8 Deep concern about an increase in neo-Nazism and other forms of bigotry was expressed at the end of the International Conference on Jewish-Christian Co-operation. 1974Times 22 Oct. 5/1 National Front members..have been embarrassed..by Mr Tyndall's vulnerability to the charge of neo-Nazism.
1920E. Pound H.S. Mauberley 25 Mildness, amid the *neo-Nietzschean clatter. 1958Listener 19 June 1025/3 The neo-Nietzschean oracles of Colin Wilson.
1960J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells v. 46 St. Andrew's first, with *neo-Norman apse.
1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 296/2 Serious *neo-orthodox theologians regard the Billy Grahams and Norman Vincent Peales with revulsion.
1952Britannica Bk. of Year 666/2 *Neo-orthodoxy, certain new interpretations, especially on original sin, the righteousness of God, and the Bible as a source of revealed religious truth to which man must respond in every situation by a decision involving obedience or disobedience.
1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. 18th C. II. 437 The ‘man of feeling’..would in these days be a ritualist or a *neopagan. 1877Symonds Renaiss. It. iv. 193 The neopagan impulse of the classical revival.
1880J. McCarthy Hist. Own Times IV. 542 Pre-Raphaelitism..has got mixed up with æstheticism, *neo-paganism, and other such fantasies.
1888Palgrave in 19th Cent. Sept. 346 To classicalise, to *neopaganise, his native and natural Teutonic genius.
1940Burlington Mag. Sept. 79/2 The *Neo-palladian architecture in England from the twenties of the eighteenth century onwards.
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel viii. 541 So is *neo-Parsism doing at this day.
1647Trapp Comm. 2 Tim. iii. 17 In our controversies against Antichristians, Antinomists, *Neopelagians.
1963R. T. Hitt in Eternity July 11/2 The present *neo-Pentecostal movement does not include some of the extravagances and excesses of the earlier more revivalistic type of Pentecostalism. 1966J. T. Nichol Pentecostalism xii. 241 Doubtless scores of ‘neo-Pentecostals’ are intellectually or experientially acquainted with charismatic phenomena like speaking in tongues. 1981N.Y. Times 10 May i. 26/3 Two kinds of independent churches predominate. One is a byproduct of the neo-Pentecostal or charismatic revival.
1963R. T. Hitt in Eternity July 10/1 One of the most amazing religious movements of the day is the sudden sweep of Pentecostalism into the main line denominations of U.S. Protestantism. Not following the patterns of the older Pentecostalism, it might better be described as *neo-Pentecostalism. 1978C. E. Hummel Fire in Fireplace iv. 43 During the late 1950s a Neo-Pentecostalism began to flow in mainline Protestant churches.
1976Time 26 Apr. 42/2 Like other *Neo-Pentecostalists, Stapleton believes in miraculous physical healings, but has played down her own involvement in them. 1977Washington Post 6 May d20/1 Haughey,..a member of the neo-Pentecostalist charismatic movement.., cautioned healing enthusiasts.
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 495 A *Neo-Phoenician style was also attempted.
1972Newsweek 27 Mar. 3 Once dismissed as a racist demagogue, Alabama Gov. George Wallace brings a quirky but potent *neopopulism to 1972 Presidential politics—as witnessed by his triumph in the Florida Democratic primary. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 116/5 In small, localized communities, the tyranny of social control and of majority pressures can be all the more dangerous, as the neopopulism of Mid-Western small towns and the American South amply illustrates.
1935Mind XLIV. 540 (title) Some metaphysical assumptions and problems of *neo-positivism. 1963R. Carnap in P. A. Schilpp Philos. of R. Carnap 866 Since Lenin's book against Mach's philosophy, no author in the Soviet Union has dared to discuss neo-positivism with sympathy.
1935Mind XLIV. 540 *Neo-positivists who define the class of possible operations by reference to future acts of verification can do so only by assigning some metaphysical status to time. 1964English Studies XLV. Suppl. 109 Present-day British philosophers of the analytical or neo-positivist schools have therefore one criterion, namely the contribution to positive knowledge.
1927Observer 24 Apr. 14/4 Post-impressionism, Expressionism, *Neo-primitivism. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1622/1 He would have denounced their neo-primitivism, the Rousseauian belief that poverty and roughness are closer to nature than austerity and civilized habits, and therefore more authentic and morally pure.
1884Manch. Exam. 30 June 5/3 The mischievous misrepresentations of the *neo-protectionist and ‘fair’ trader.
1863Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 763/2 The Nought was known in the *Neo-Pythagorean schools. 1891Chambers's Encycl. VII. 436/2 *Neopythagoreans may be divided into two groups.
1865tr. Strauss' New Life Jesus I. i. xxx. 249 The artificially invented systems of *Neopythagoreanism and Neoplatonism.
1891Edin. Rev. July 218 The function of *Neo-Quakerism.
1916Mind XXV. 314 The theory of *neo-realism that colours, shapes and sounds must be accepted at their face value whatever the difficulties. 1955Times 4 July 12/3 The earnest talker on films, the cinéaste, finds his brother in the balletomane and his cousin in the first-nighter..and his conversation is full of words like montage, neo-realism, and audio-visual correspondence.
1917A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God x. 191 The opening years of the twentieth century have been marked..by a strong attack on the fundamental tenet of Mentalism on the part of thinkers who call themselves Realists or *Neo-Realists. 1931G. F. Stout Mind & Matter 171 The Neo-Realist holds that when we see a star the star itself becomes in one aspect of its being an immediate content of our actual sense-experience. 1940Mind XLIX. 122 The ‘neo-realist’ positions of Russell, Alexander, and Whitehead. 1974Times 11 Dec. 14/4 Downpour, a gentle neo-realist study of the difficulties of a young teacher.
1955Times 26 May 13/3 The *neo-realistic Italian cinema has made English audiences familiar with the poverty and crime that flourish in the back streets of Italian cities.
1970Times 26 Feb. 6 One of the Maoists' main targets is the Marxist Communist Party, branded by Peking as *neo-revisionist to distinguish it from the pro-Moscow Communist Party. 1970Guardian Weekly 18 July 5 The Indian Marxists have often been denounced by Radio Peking as ‘neo-revisionists’.
1926A. Huxley Two or Three Graces 76 That sham dix-huitième language, those *neo-rococo sentiments.
1891Ch. Times 28 Aug. 822/4 Whether married in the Anglo-Catholic or the *Neo-Roman Church.
1875Stedman Vict. Poets 361 This master of the *Neo-Romantic school. 1899Beerbohm More 95 The Neo-Romantics, the dalliers with pretty sentiment, would paint admirable sign-boards. 1947A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era xv. 221 That crude, scribbling materialism with which the French neo-Romantics amuse themselves.
1882Athenæum 27 May 660/1 The *neo-romanticism of the nineteenth [century].
1915London Q. Rev. Jan. 49 The ‘*Neo-scholastic’ movement would have attracted no attention outside Catholic circles, had it not been for the literary activity of the Louvain professors. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 26 June 524/4 It is true that there are certain neo-Scholastics and certain naturalists who divide into neo-Realists and critical Realists influenced both by William James and Mr. Bertrand Russell.
1915London Q. Rev. Jan. 46 It is strange that a movement with so much verve as ‘*Neo-scholasticism’ has attracted so little attention in Britain. 1934C. S. Lewis Let. 7 June (1966) 157 Beware of people who are at present running what they call ‘neo-scholasticism’ as a fad.
1970G. Jackson Let. 4 Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 211 Part of the credo of the *neoslave, the latter-day slave,..is to shuffle away from any situation that becomes too difficult.
Ibid. 214 The *neoslaver destroyed the uneconomic plantation, and built upon its ruins a factory.
1965― Let. 30 Mar. in Soledad Brother (1971) 70 Our people react in different ways to this *neoslavery.
1969Guardian 30 Sept. 12/2 Those who are allowed to speak to the [Czech] nation speak with the accents of *neo-Stalinism. 1974Times 27 May 4/2 The [Yugoslav] climate changed and the attacks began to centre on neo-Stalinism.
1960Guardian 28 July 9/6 The *neo-Stalinists..are now prepared to make their stand known in public. Ibid. 9/7 This is also the neo-Stalinist view in China. 1973A. Mann Tiara i. 3 Things are beginning to simmer again in Moscow, and the neo-Stalinists or hard-liners..have recovered a good deal of influence.
1930Times Educ. Suppl. 3 May 197/2 The schools or coteries of the last few decades—the symbolists, neo-classicists, *neo-symbolists, synthetists..and so forth. 1960Guardian 19 Aug. 4/5 How to combine the neo-symbolist image..with the language of rational discourse.
1907W. de Morgan Alice-For-Short viii. 75 A *neo-theosophical reincarnationism without so much as a single Himalayan Brother to back you up! 1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large ix. 367 He [sc. Steiner] founded his own neo-theosophical body.
1915London Q. Rev. Jan. 51 Neo-scholasticism is essentially ‘*Neo-Thomism’. 1968P. B. Austin On being Swedish xxiii. 168 Neo-Thomism is also making its voice heard.
1928H. Crane Let. 17 Apr. (1965) 323 This method is reversed—as with the *neo-Thomists. c1928R. Fry Lett. (1972) II. 632 He [sc. Herbert Read]'s one of this neo-Thomist lot with a whole bag of metaphysical nostrums on his back. 1947Neo-Thomist [see neo-Aristotelian adj. and n. above].
1945‘G. Orwell’ England Your England (1953) 56 All *Neo-Tories are anti-Russian, but sometimes the main emphasis is anti-American.
Ibid., The real motive force of *Neo-Toryism..is the desire not to recognise that British power and influence have declined.
1962Economist 19 May 674/1 *Neo-traditionalism was now so strong that Buganda became its own political ‘party’.
1932Auden Orators iii. 103 In the *neo-Tudor club-house the captains frown. 1960J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vi. 57 And not far off the neo-Tudor shops.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Phil. i. (1870) 15 His *neo-utilitarianism, as I have called it.
1929Galsworthy Modern Comedy p. x, Such subsidiary *neo-Victorians as the self-righteous Mr. Danby. 1959Neo-Victorian [see Betjeman].
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 712/2 These efforts..by their unfortunate designations of Vitalism and *Neo⁓vitalism give rise to entirely false conceptions.
1899J. A. Thomson Sci. of Life 9 The rise of a school of ‘*neovitalists’, who have helped to save the science from self-conceit by their emphasis on the partial nature of all physiological analysis. 1920A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God (ed. 2) p. vi, I have added some detailed criticism of recent neo⁓vitalist statements from which I wish to dissociate myself. 1966C. G. Hempel Philos. of Nat. Sci. vi. 72 All that the neovitalist doctrine enables us to do is to make the post factum pronouncement.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 712/2 All the so-called *neo-vitalistic efforts..have nothing to do with the older vitalism.
b. In the designations of certain forms of chemical substances (so named when newly discovered), as neoparaffin; neoarsˈphenamine, a bicyclic arsenic compound, H2NC6H3(OH)As:As(OH)C6H3NHCH2SO2Na, which is a derivative of arsphenamine and is a toxic yellow powder formerly much used in the treatment of syphilis; neoheˈsperidin [a. G. neohesperidin (Kolle & Gloppe 1936, in Pharmazeut. Zentralhalle LXXVII. 425)], a bitter compound, C28H34O15, which is a glycoside of a flavone and is found in Seville oranges; neoˈsalvarsan [a. G. neosalvarsan (E. Schreiber 1912, in München. med. Wochenschr. 23 Apr. 905/1)] = neoarsphenamine above; neoˈstigmine [physostigmine], the aromatic quaternary ammonium ion (CH3)2N·CO·O·C6H4N+ (CH3)3 or its bromide or methylsulphate salts, which are white crystalline compounds used in treating myasthenia gravis and other muscular complaints.
1876W. Odling in Philos. Mag. XXV. 217 Isomerism does or may occur..among neo acids with one another.
1918Public Health Rep. (U.S.) XXXIII. 1003 Previous to the year 1914, all of the arsphenamine (salvarsan) and neo-arsphenamine (neosalvarsan) on the market was manufactured by a single German firm. 1951A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therap. xxx. 698 Neoarsphenamine is easier to prepare and administer than arsphenamine; causes fewer reactions; and is less irritant to the tissues. 1969Radiation Res. XXXIX. 579 Neoarsphenamine, a sulfhydryl-binding agent, sensitizes hypoxic suspensions of E. coli..to irradiation.
1936Chem. Abstr. XXX. 6509 The new glucoside ‘244’, for which the name neohesperidin is suggested, is split on hydrolysis in 2 phases in accordance with the following scheme. 1962Anal. Biochem. IV. 110 The isolation and identification of neohesperidin, a 7-rhamnoglucoside of hesperetin..from a commercially produced grapefruit flavonoid preparation containing mostly naringin. 1970Neohesperidin [see naringin].
1876W. Odling in Philos. Mag. XXV. 206 The subclass typified by the hydrocarbon C(CH3)4 may be conveniently designated as that of neo- or latest paraffins. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 557–8. 1881 Roscoe & Schorlemmer Chem. III. i. 136 Neoparaffins. In these compounds one atom of carbon is connected with four other carbon atoms.
1912Chem. Abstr. VI. 2111 Neo-salvarsan is more easily sol. than salvarsan, thus simplifying this part of the salvarsan therapy and preventing the effects produced by NaOH. It is more easily tolerated than salvarsan; intestinal disturbances and collapse are nearly entirely absent. 1932Schamberg & Wright Treatment of Syphilis x. 159 The product known as ‘914’ or ‘neosalvarsan’ (neoarsphenamine) possessed the very desirable property of being more freely soluble in water and being neutral in reaction. 1970Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xx. 2/1 Salvarsan tended to be toxic and was soon replaced by a less toxic compound called neosalvarsan, which was universally employed until it was superseded by penicillin in 1945.
1943Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. LIV. 254/1 Oral administration of o·2 mg/kg of neostigmine bromide to mice reduces mortality in severe anoxia but larger doses are not prophylactic. 1951A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therap. xiii. 253 Neostigmine, like physostigmine, exerts its action by inactivating cholinesterase. 1973Exper. Eye Res. XV. 35 The increase in blood flow in the ciliary processes may be due to a direct effect on the muscarinic receptor of neostigmine, which is a quaternary compound, but it may also be due to an ability of neostigmine to release acetylcholine from the nerve terminals besides protecting it.
Spec. (after neoparaffin: see above), denoting compounds and radicals in which one carbon atom is linked to four others, as neohexane, neohexyl; neoˈpentane, an isomer, C(CH3)4, of pentane which is an easily condensable gas and which is found in small amounts in petroleum; neoˈpentyl, the radical (CH3)3C·CH2{b1} derived from neopentane.
1876Phil. Mag. I. 207 (caption) Neohexane. 1942V. J. Clancey Chem. & Aeroplane iv. 64 Neo-hexane, with an octane value of 94, has been produced for use in blending with normal aviation fuels. 1957G. I. Brown Introd. Org. Chem. vi. 83 Ethylene and iso-butane react..at 500°C and 250 atmospheres to form neo-hexane. 1968R. O. C. Norman Princ. Org. Synth. viii. 263 The simplest example of an efficient alkylation is the preparation of neohexyl chloride..from t-butyl chloride and ethylene.
1876W. Odling in Philos. Mag. XXV. 209 Isopentane and neopentane. 1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 145/1 The highly symmetrical neopentane molecule. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. I. 249/1 Two alkanes, neopentane (dimethylpropane) and neohexane (2,2-dimethylbutane) are named unambiguously by using the prefix ‘neo’.
1876Phil. Mag. I. 209 The paraffin- or alcohol-monad radicals propyl, butyl, isobutyl, pentyl, isopentyl or amyl, and neopentyl, &c. 1933Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. LV. 3803 Because of the importance of the neopentyl system in rearrangements the preparation and properties of the parent hydrocarbons have been studied. 1969A. Nica Theory & Pract. Lubrication Syst. vi. 168 The neopentyl polyol esters were used in gas turbine engines when the temperatures..prohibited the utilisation of diesters.
c. In geological terms (opposed to palæo-) denoting the later or more recent portion of a period, as Neo-cambrian, neo-carboniferous, neo-devonian, etc.
1888Hatch in Teall Petrogr. 442 Rosenbusch..subdivides the group of volcanic rocks into paleovolcanic and neo⁓volcanic. 1894H. S. Williams in Jrnl. Geol. II. 155 Neosilurian. Ibid. 158 It began at the beginning of the Neodevonian. 1897Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 87. 57 Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda, Neo-carboniferous.
d. In terms denoting scientists who study recent, in contrast to ancient, forms of plants, animals, etc., as neo-botanist, neo-zoologist.
1889Nicholson & Lydekker Palæont. I. 5 The domain of the neozoologist or the neobotanist.
e. In anatomical terms designating parts of the brain which are considered to be of relatively recent development phylogenetically, as neencephalon, neocerebellum, neocortex, neopallium, neostriatum, neothalamus. Cf. palæo-, paleo- b.
2. In misc. combs., as neoˈarctic a. = nearctic. ˈneoblast Zool. [-blast], any of the specialized cells in annelid worms by the division of which a lost portion of the body can be regenerated; neoˈblastic a., of the nature of a new growth. neoˈcatechu (see quot.). ˈneocene a., Geol. = neogene. neoˈchrysolite, Min. a variety of chrysolite. neoˈcosmic a. (see palæocosmic). neoˈcrinoid, Zool. a crinoid of later than palæozoic date. † ˈneoctese [Gr. κτῆσις acquisition], Min. (see quot.). neoˈcyanite, Min. an uncertain mineral found in the fumeroles of Vesuvius. ˈneodox a., holding new views. ˈneodoxy, a new doctrine or view. neoˈembryo, Zool. a metazoan embryo at the stage before it develops any special characters to indicate to what group it belongs; hence neoembryˈonic a. neogæan, -gean |niːəˈdʒiːən| a., of or pertaining to the New World or western hemisphere. ˈneogam [ad. Gr. νεόγαµος], a newly-married person (nonce-wd.); so † neˈogamist (Blount 1656). neogene |ˈniːədʒiːn| a., Geol. belonging to the later Tertiary (Miocene and Pliocene). neoˈgenesis, chiefly in scientific use: the formation of something new; the renewed formation of something formed previously. neogeˈnetic a., Biol. of atavism, denoting that the abnormal part does not appear as a germ in the embryo. ˈneograph a. (see quot.). neoˈgraphic a., of the nature of, pertaining to, a new system of writing or spelling. ˈneography, a new system or method of writing. Neo-ˈGrec [F. grec Greek], a modern style of architecture based on classical Greek architecture. neoˈmorphism, the process of change into a new form. neomorˈphosis Biol., a type of regeneration (see quot.); neoˈnatal a., Med. relating to newly-born children. neoˈnatally adv., soon after birth. neontoˈlogical a., pertaining or belonging to neontology. neonˈtologist, a student of neontology. neonˈtology, the zoology or study of extant animals. neoˈphobia, fear or dislike of what is new. neoˈphobic a., fearing or disliking what is new. ˈneoplase, Min. an obsolete name for botryogen. neoˈtantalite Min. [ad. F. néotantalite (P. Termier 1902, in Bull. de la Soc. franç. de Minéral. XXV. 37)], a mineral found as yellow octahedra in Allier, France, that was formerly thought to be a tantalate and niobate of iron, manganese, and sodium but is now thought to be an impure microlite. neoˈteinia, -ˈtenia [Gr. τείνειν to keep], Biol. the retention of juvenile conditions in an individual (esp. a termite) capable of reproduction; hence neoˈteinic a. neoˈtenin Ent. [neoten(ia] = juvenile hormone s.v. juvenile a. 4. neoˈtesite, Min. a hydrous silicate of manganese.
1868Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. 473 Two of the great zoological regions..the *Neoarctic and Neotropical.
1891H. Randolph in Zoologischer Anzeiger XIV. 154 The new mesoderm is formed in great part from specialized cells in the region of the peritonaeal epithelium of the ventral longitudinal muscles, on each side of the ventral nerve cord between it and the ventral row of setae. These cells, which I propose to call *neoblasts, are distinguishable from the cells of the peritonaeum by their great size and by the presence of a cell body. 1930Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XXXVII. 186 The cells concerned in the phagocytosis and replacement of tissues are derived from neoblasts in the ventral body-wall. 1972Jrnl. Morphol. CXXXVII. 217/2 The confusion between peritoneal cells, so-called neoblasts, and oocytes in polychaetes has a considerable historical basis.
1854R. D. Thomson Cycl. Chem. 379/1 *Neocatechu consists of tannin 32·2, gallic acid 35·, colouring matter 18·8, fibre, &c. 12·.
1895Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 880 The Miocene and Pliocene are sometimes united under the name *Neocene. 1897Amer. Microsc. Jrnl. Mar. 91 The same forms are to be found in the Neocene of California.
1892Dana Syst. Min. (ed. 6) 455 *Neo-chrysolite... In small, black crystalline plates.
1882Carpenter in Proc. Zool. Soc. 734 The presence of three radials is such an absolutely constant character in all the five-rayed *Neocrinoids.
1854Dana Syst. Min. (ed. 4) II. 419 The *Neoctese, from Brazil, is shown..to be identical with Scorodite.
1892Ibid. (ed. 6) 562 *Neocyanite... In very minute monoclinic crystals..colour blue.
1897Daily Chron. 2 Sept. 4/6 The views of the *neodox Israelites.
1896Daily News 3 Aug. 5 A shapeless and ever varying fancy, which I venture to describe as *neodoxy.
1887Hyatt in Proc. Boston (U.S.) Soc. Nat. Hist. 398 *Neoembryos are..so similar that they may be considered as indicating a common ancestor for the entire Animal Kingdom.
1862Alford in Life (1873) 357 At Lucerne our *neogams met us.
1857Sclater in Proc. Linn. Soc., Zool. II. 134 The most really characteristic region of *Neogean Ornithology.
1878Lawrence tr. Cotta's Rocks Class. 261 A Miocene or *Neogene deposit of clay in the Vienna basin.
1903Ibis III. 15 But the opposite hypothesis, that we have in this singular small Owl a case of *neogenesis—i.e. the ex-abrupto formation of a new type with sufficient differential characters to constitute, if maintained, a new species,—can, I believe, be upheld. The term neogenesis was first used to explain this sudden origin of new forms from old-established species, if I am not mistaken, by my friend and colleague Prof. Paolo Mantegazza, many years ago; it has been since used, more or less in the same sense, by the late Prof. Cope and by others. 1946Nature 10 Aug. 202/1 The situation is essentially different in coma, in the sense that although neogenesis of sugar occurs (high blood sugar during fast) storage of glycogen in the liver is no longer possible. 1959Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. LXXXIII. 507 (heading) Neogenesis of human hair follicles. 1972Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 477/1 Neogenesis, the formation of new minerals, as by diagenesis or metamorphism.
1882Garson & Gadow tr. Gegenbaur's Jrnl. Anat. XVI. 622 The first form we propose to call ‘Palæogenetic’, the second ‘*Neogenetic’ atavism. 1886Sutton in Proc. Zool. Soc. 551 My object is to shew..that Neogenetic Atavism has no existence.
1892Nation (N.Y.) 23 June 474/1 The illustrations are reproduced from remarkably clear photographs by the *neograph process.
1825(title) Enchiridion..by the author of the *Neographic Alphabet. a1876M. Collins Th. in Garden (1880) I. 150 Favour was spelt in the American fashion—favor. This *neographic tendency is based on ignorance.
1810Gentl. Mag. LXXX. i. 136 A new system called *neography, by which the publisher..has attempted to simplify..all the various modes of writing.
1931C. H. Reilly in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 989 The next stage, generally called the *Neo Grec, was probably due to the indirect influence of the Gothic revivalists. 1939Archit. Rev. LXXXV. 52/3 No better background could be imagined for the parade ground manoeuvrings of redcoated guards than these stern, unadorned neo-grec façades.
1888Gadow in Nature XXXIX. 151/2 Still greater is the difficulty when the *neomorphism..takes place in the next following metamere.
1901T. H. Morgan Regeneration i. 24 In one case [of heteromorphosis] the new part is not only different from the part removed, but is also an organ that belongs to a different part of the body (or it may be unlike any organ of the body). This we may call ‘*neomorphosis’. 1902Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Mar. 721/1 Chapters on antenatal in relation to postnatal and *neonatal pathology.
1945Ann. Amer. Acad. Political & Social Sci. CCXXXVII. 140 Puerperal fatality increases sharply when the infant is either stillborn or dies *neonatally. 1974Nature 7 June 564/2 No significant increase in tumour incidence has been observed in either neonatally thymectomised..mice or congenitally athymic..mice.
1896Nat. Sci. Dec. 355 Systems founded on *neontological evidence only have had their day.
1889Nature XXXIX. 364/2 The *neontologist, if we may venture to call anyone by that name.
Ibid. 364/1 The division of zoology into palæontology and *neontology..is, no doubt, logically defensible.
1886Pop. Sci. Monthly XXIX. 782 In the student, curiosity takes the place of *neophobia. 1895Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 1/3 He is particularly subject to neophobia.
1925Glasgow Herald 20 June 4 The greeting extended to the steamship was quite as *neophobic. 1971W. Hanley Blue Dreams iii. 22 Her unfailingly neophobic response to those attempts.
1854R. D. Thompson Cycl. Chem. 379/1 *Neoplase, a synonyme of red sulphate of iron, and also of arsenide of nickel.
1903Mineral. Mag. XIII. 374 *Neotantalite... Minute, regular octahedra resembling pyrochlore, in kaolin from dép. Allier, France. 1932Mineral. Abstr. V. 185 The several minerals (..microlite, neotantalite, atopite, [etc.]..) of this group [sc. pyrochlore-romeite]..crystallize as small octahedra and have the same type of crystal-structure. 1973Ibid. XXIV. 282/1 ‘Neotantalite’ is a microlite A2B2O6(OH,F) with large deficiences in the A ions which may be Ba, Pb, U, or Ca. Microprobe analyses show that the Fe and Mn included in the first description..are impurities.
1894Proc. Entom. Soc. 14 Mar. p. vii, What Grassi calls *neoteinic queens, that is fertile females, that in some portions of the development of the body still retain the immature condition.
1896Nature LIII. 323/2 Pædogenesis..is an extreme form of the more general phenomenon of *neotenia.
1954V. B. Wigglesworth Physiol. Insect Metamorphosis iv. 56 The ‘inhibitory hormone’..has..been called for preference the ‘juvenile hormone’. If a Greek term is preferred it might be called ‘*neotenin’. 1966tr. V.J.A. Novák's Insect Hormones 79 (heading) The juvenile hormone (neotenin), JH (= inhibitory hormone, Wigglesworth, 1935; = status quo hormone, Williams, 1952; = das Larvalhormon, Weber, 1954). 1968New Scientist 16 May 354/1 In larval insects, moulting and metamorphosis are controlled by two hormones produced by epithelial endocrine glands:..neotenin from the corpora allata controls the change towards the adult form.
1892Dana Syst. Min. (ed. 6) 705 Klipsteinite is another hydrated manganese silicate... See also..epigenite or *neotesite. |