evolutionisticadj.

1876 Catholic World Apr. 36/2 When attacked by evolutionistic pantheism—which means all the sophistries of the day—it [sc. Protestantism] takes refuge behind the historic fortress of Christianity, the Catholic Church.

1879 Princeton Rev. May 672 The way of evolutionistic heredity, as set forth by Herbert Spencer and other materialists.

1883 Daily News 21 Sept. 6/1 The address was a striking array of facts, all evolutionistic in their character.

1906 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 3 245 These result in two new hypotheses which Berthelot offers under the paradoxical designations, ‘Lamarckian Weissmannism’ and ‘Evolutionistic Cuvierism’.

1942 Yale Law Jrnl. 51 1235 In the first two decades of the twentieth century, anthropologists became dissatisfied with, and completely rejected, the crude evolutionistic theories of nineteenth century social science.

1998 W. Becker Link (2000) 338 Evolutionistic thought permeates business—the survival of the fittest being at the heart of free market capitalism.

1885 C. Dixon in Nature 10 Dec. 128/2 Nor do I consider it fair..to infer that isolation, &c., do not explain the cause of variation, and therefore that they fail as evolutionistic agents.