单词 | epigenist |
释义 | epigenistn. Biology. Now historical. A person who advocates or believes in the theory of epigenesis (epigenesis n. 1); an epigenesist. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of origin or development of life animalculist1730 epigenesist1784 vermiculist1784 animalist1800 epigenist1803 ovarist1816 spermatist1836 ovist1838 creationist1856 seminist1857 vitalist1860 monogenist1868 nomogenist1868 panspermist1868 abiogenist1870 heterogenist1870 panspermatist1870 ovulist1879 adaptionist1888 abiogenesist1889 thaumatogenist1891 1803 J. G. Dalyell tr. C. Bonnet in tr. L. Spallanzani Tracts Nat. Hist. Animals & Vegetables (ed. 2) II. 388 The vegetative powers and organic molecules of celebrated modern Epigenists [Fr. Epigénésistes]. 1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism iii. 45 The vehement dispute..between Evolutionists and Epigenists [Ger. Epigenesisten]. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 37 799 Whether a biologist is to be a preformist or an epigenist is a matter biologically foreordained by the character and condition of his glands. 2014 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 47 676 The second cause related to the vital force theorized in the eighteen-century [sic] by epigenists like German Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and updated by mechanists in the nineteenth-century to accord with advances in microscopy and the burgeoning discipline of cytology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < |
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