heterogenistn.
An upholder of the hypothesis of heterogeny or spontaneous generation.
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animalculist1730
epigenesist1784
vermiculist1784
animalist1800
epigenist1803
ovarist1816
spermatist1836
ovist1838
creationist1856
seminist1857
vitalist1860
monogenist1868
nomogenist1868
panspermist1868
abiogenist1870
heterogenist1870
panspermatist1870
ovulist1879
adaptionist1888
abiogenesist1889
thaumatogenist1891
1870 Nature 14 July 224/1 M. Pasteur's researches..have..strongly influenced the opinions of very many scientific men on the question of the truth or falsity of the doctrines of the heterogenists.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiii. 304 The English heterogenist was far bolder.
1878 J. Tyndall in 19th Cent. Mar. 501 While no discovery of the age would bear comparison with this ‘new birth of living particles’, it is a mere commonplace occurrence to our fortunate heterogenist.
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