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palingenesis|pælɪnˈdʒɛnɪsɪs|
[f. Gr. πάλιν again + γένεσις birth, origination: a modern compound not on Greek analogy: see prec.]
1. = palingenesy.
1818Hobhouse Italy (1859) II. 351 A poem which he [Monti] published..and called the ‘Palingenesis’. 1871H. Macmillan True Vine iv. (1872) 169 The palingenesis of creation is accomplished, not by the rooting-up of evil, but by the sowing of good.
2. Biol.
†a. The supposed production of animals from putrescent animal matter. Obs.
1866in Brande & Cox Dict. Sci. etc.
b. Haeckel's term for the form of ontogenesis in which ancestral characters are exactly reproduced, without modification; true hereditary genesis or evolution; the ‘breeding true’ of an organism (opp. to kenogenesis).
1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man I. 11 This distinction between Palingenesis or inherited evolution, and Kenogenesis or vitiated evolution, has not..yet been sufficiently appreciated by naturalists.
c. Entom. = metamorphosis.
1886in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.
3. Petrol. [ad. Sw. palingenes (J. J. Sederholm 1907, in Bull. Comm. Géol. Finlande xxiii. 89).] The formation of a new magma by the remelting of existing rocks.
1907J. J. Sederholm in Bull. Comm. Géol. Finlande xxiii. 102 The granitic magma, once solidified and, in part, decomposed, undergoes again, when brought into the deeper parts of the earth, a resurrection, or, as the author expresses it, palingenesis. 1965A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) xxx. 1131 The following list of the radiometric ages of some of the uplifted basement rocks shows how successfully they escaped the widespread palingenesis..that rejuvenated similar old rocks during the Nevadan orogenies farther west. 1974L. N. Kogarko in H. Sørensen Alkaline Rocks vi. 480/1 The significant reductions of the melting temperatures of rocks caused by the volatile components is probably of great importance for palingenesis.
Hence palinˈgenesist, one who holds some doctrine of palingenesy.
1860All Year Round No. 43. 389 Monsieur Doyère, the most ardent palingenesist of the age,..pretends that these animals are able to support..absolute desiccation, without losing the faculty of resurrection. 1869tr. Pouchet's Universe (1871) 35 Our modern palingenesists. |