spermatistn.
One who held the view that the sperm alone was the source of animal life.
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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
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 427/1 According to the..theory..of the Spermatists,..the male semen alone furnished all the vital parts of the new animal.
1899 J. A. Thomson Sci. of Life 125 Other observers, nicknamed ‘spermatists’ or ‘animalculists’, believed them [sc. spermatozoa] to be the earliest stages of the young animal.
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