evolutionistn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌiːvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ɪst/,

/ˌɛvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ɪst/, U.S.

/ˌɛvəˈluʃənəst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: evolution n., -ist suffix.

Etymology: < evolution n. + -ist suffix. In sense A. 3 after German Evolutionist (1873 in the passage translated in quot. 1875). Compare French évolutionniste (1847 as noun in sense A. 3, 1873 as noun in sense A. 2, 1885 or earlier as adjective), Spanish evolucionista (late 19th cent. as noun in sense A. 2 and as adjective). Compare evolutionism n.

A. n.

†1. A performer of military or gymnastic evolutions (evolution n. 1a and 2a); an acrobat. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat

tumblera1340

tumbesterc1386

tumblesterc1386

playera1425

speeler1496

balancer?1518

petaurist1656

tumbling lass1687

balance-master1753

balance-mistress1801

jerry-come-tumble1823

acrobat1827

evolutionist1833

jerry-go-nimble1874

1833 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 131 I attracted the attention of this solitary evolutionist.

1835 Times 8 Sept. 2/6 (advt.) Automaton Evolutionist; Mr. Williams; Mr. Sharpe (Ventriloquism).

1845 Milwaukie (Wisconsin Territory) Daily Sentinel 5 June Among those who compose the corps of performers will be found the names of Waterman the celebrated Four Horse Rider,..the Evolutionist or Double Somerset Man, [etc.].

2. A person who holds a theory or doctrine of evolution, or interprets a field of study in evolutionary terms; an evolutionary biologist; (in wider sense) an adherent of evolutionism.

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the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of genetics or evolution

transmutationist1844

progressionist1845

developist1846

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monogenist1857

polygenist1857

Darwinian1860

Darwinite1860

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permutationist1860

developmentalist1862

monogenesist1862

polygenesist1862

Darwinist1864

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natural selectionist1869

homogenist1874

derivationist1875

transformista1879

hereditarian1881

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derivatist1887

preformationist1888

fortuitist1890

Lamarckite1890

neo-Lamarckian1890

neo-Darwinist1891

vestigian1891

neo-Darwinian1892

selectionist1892

preformist1895

recapitulationist1897

transmissionist1899

Mendelian1903

mutationist1903

Weismannian1903

adaptationist1904

Mendelist1906

Lysenkoist1949

Morganist1950

Lamarckian1953

gradualist1970

macromutationist1975

punctuationalist1978

saltationist1978

punctuationist1980

1866 Ladies' Repos. Aug. 510/1 He [sc. Herbert Spencer] is an Evolutionist in contradistinction from the believer in special creations.

1873 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 189 It is admitted by most evolutionists that mammals are descended from a marsupial form.

1893 L. Abbott Evol. Christianity vii. 219 The most skeptical of evolutionists affirms the existence in man of moral and spiritual qualities which differentiate him from the animal.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1162 Botanical evolutionists are usually of the opinion that these metachlamydeous families represent the higher stages in the evolution of the flowering plants.

1945 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 1 241 Unlike the evolutionist, he [sc. the functionalist] would not concern himself with the process of development which had brought the system into existence, but with the system itself.

1986 J. D. Barrow & F. J. Tipler Anthropic Cosmol. Princ. (1988) iii. 124 The consensus of modern evolutionists is that the evolution of intelligent life on Earth..is so improbable that it is most unlikely to occur elsewhere in our Galaxy.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 12/1 American evolutionists, notably Richard Lewontin and the late Stephen Jay Gould, have often criticized their English contemporaries for placing too much emphasis on natural selection.

3. Biology and History of Science. = preformationist n. Cf. evolution n. 5b. rare.

ΚΠ

1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism iii. 45 The vehement dispute..between Evolutionists and Epigenists [Ger. zwischen den Evolutionisten und den Epigenesisten].

1900 E. B. Wilson Cell in Devel. & Inheritance (ed. 2) 8 By the extreme ‘evolutionists’ or ‘præformationists’ the egg was believed to contain an embryo fully formed in miniature.

1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 499 He [sc. Buffon] viewed life as a connected whole, and this necessarily led to a clash with the Preformationists, or Evolutionists in the older sense. For them every form of life..had a separate and distinct history from the very day of creation.

2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do i. 22 Many leading biological thinkers now find themselves compelled to accept a view that has somewhat in common with the theory of prae-formation, though differing radically from its early form as held by Bonnet and other evolutionists of the 18th century.

B. adj.

Chiefly attributive. Of, relating to, or characterized by evolutionism.

ΚΠ

1875 F. M. Müller in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 316 Evolutionist philosophers..see in nature nothing but ‘insensible graduation’.

1882 Athenæum 24 June 789/2 Right conduct on evolutionist principles can only be such conduct as is in accord with the conditions of social vitality.

1925 H. L. Mencken Let. 27 May in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 211 I have got myself involved in the Tennessee evolutionist trial, as a consulting Man of Vision to Darrow and Dudley Field Malone.

1963 C. Jacobson & B. G. Schoepf tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Struct. Anthropol. i. 5 The evolutionist interpretation in anthropology clearly derives from evolutionism in biology.

2002 L. A. Witham Where Darwin meets Bible iii. 43 The American Society of Zoologists, formed in 1902, was evolutionist at its inception, but it was hardly Darwinian. Zoologists..were not yet sold on natural selection.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	evolutionist
释义	evolutionistn.adj. Brit. /ˌiːvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌɛvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌɛvəˈluʃənəst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: evolution n., -ist suffix. Etymology: < evolution n. + -ist suffix. In sense A. 3 after German Evolutionist (1873 in the passage translated in quot. 1875). Compare French évolutionniste (1847 as noun in sense A. 3, 1873 as noun in sense A. 2, 1885 or earlier as adjective), Spanish evolucionista (late 19th cent. as noun in sense A. 2 and as adjective). Compare evolutionism n. A. n. †1. A performer of military or gymnastic evolutions (evolution n. 1a and 2a); an acrobat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat tumblera1340 tumbesterc1386 tumblesterc1386 playera1425 speeler1496 balancer?1518 petaurist1656 tumbling lass1687 balance-master1753 balance-mistress1801 jerry-come-tumble1823 acrobat1827 evolutionist1833 jerry-go-nimble1874 1833 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 131 I attracted the attention of this solitary evolutionist. 1835 Times 8 Sept. 2/6 (advt.) Automaton Evolutionist; Mr. Williams; Mr. Sharpe (Ventriloquism). 1845 Milwaukie (Wisconsin Territory) Daily Sentinel 5 June Among those who compose the corps of performers will be found the names of Waterman the celebrated Four Horse Rider,..the Evolutionist or Double Somerset Man, [etc.]. 2. A person who holds a theory or doctrine of evolution, or interprets a field of study in evolutionary terms; an evolutionary biologist; (in wider sense) an adherent of evolutionism. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of genetics or evolution transmutationist1844 progressionist1845 developist1846 developmentist1847 monogenist1857 polygenist1857 Darwinian1860 Darwinite1860 developmentarian1860 permutationist1860 developmentalist1862 monogenesist1862 polygenesist1862 Darwinist1864 evolutionist1866 natural selectionist1869 homogenist1874 derivationist1875 transformista1879 hereditarian1881 hereditist1885 derivatist1887 preformationist1888 fortuitist1890 Lamarckite1890 neo-Lamarckian1890 neo-Darwinist1891 vestigian1891 neo-Darwinian1892 selectionist1892 preformist1895 recapitulationist1897 transmissionist1899 Mendelian1903 mutationist1903 Weismannian1903 adaptationist1904 Mendelist1906 Lysenkoist1949 Morganist1950 Lamarckian1953 gradualist1970 macromutationist1975 punctuationalist1978 saltationist1978 punctuationist1980 1866 Ladies' Repos. Aug. 510/1 He [sc. Herbert Spencer] is an Evolutionist in contradistinction from the believer in special creations. 1873 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 189 It is admitted by most evolutionists that mammals are descended from a marsupial form. 1893 L. Abbott Evol. Christianity vii. 219 The most skeptical of evolutionists affirms the existence in man of moral and spiritual qualities which differentiate him from the animal. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1162 Botanical evolutionists are usually of the opinion that these metachlamydeous families represent the higher stages in the evolution of the flowering plants. 1945 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 1 241 Unlike the evolutionist, he [sc. the functionalist] would not concern himself with the process of development which had brought the system into existence, but with the system itself. 1986 J. D. Barrow & F. J. Tipler Anthropic Cosmol. Princ. (1988) iii. 124 The consensus of modern evolutionists is that the evolution of intelligent life on Earth..is so improbable that it is most unlikely to occur elsewhere in our Galaxy. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 12/1 American evolutionists, notably Richard Lewontin and the late Stephen Jay Gould, have often criticized their English contemporaries for placing too much emphasis on natural selection. 3. Biology and History of Science. = preformationist n. Cf. evolution n. 5b. rare. ΚΠ 1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism iii. 45 The vehement dispute..between Evolutionists and Epigenists [Ger. zwischen den Evolutionisten und den Epigenesisten]. 1900 E. B. Wilson Cell in Devel. & Inheritance (ed. 2) 8 By the extreme ‘evolutionists’ or ‘præformationists’ the egg was believed to contain an embryo fully formed in miniature. 1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 499 He [sc. Buffon] viewed life as a connected whole, and this necessarily led to a clash with the Preformationists, or Evolutionists in the older sense. For them every form of life..had a separate and distinct history from the very day of creation. 2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do i. 22 Many leading biological thinkers now find themselves compelled to accept a view that has somewhat in common with the theory of prae-formation, though differing radically from its early form as held by Bonnet and other evolutionists of the 18th century. B. adj. Chiefly attributive. Of, relating to, or characterized by evolutionism. ΚΠ 1875 F. M. Müller in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 316 Evolutionist philosophers..see in nature nothing but ‘insensible graduation’. 1882 Athenæum 24 June 789/2 Right conduct on evolutionist principles can only be such conduct as is in accord with the conditions of social vitality. 1925 H. L. Mencken Let. 27 May in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 211 I have got myself involved in the Tennessee evolutionist trial, as a consulting Man of Vision to Darrow and Dudley Field Malone. 1963 C. Jacobson & B. G. Schoepf tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Struct. Anthropol. i. 5 The evolutionist interpretation in anthropology clearly derives from evolutionism in biology. 2002 L. A. Witham Where Darwin meets Bible iii. 43 The American Society of Zoologists, formed in 1902, was evolutionist at its inception, but it was hardly Darwinian. Zoologists..were not yet sold on natural selection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1833
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