transmutationistn.
One who believes in or advocates a theory of transmutation, esp. that of the transmutation of species in organic nature; a transformist. Also attributive.It might also be, and probably has been, applied to one believing in the transmutation of metals: an explanation given in Dictionaries from Worcester onward.
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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
1844 Monthly Rev. Mar. 384 It is the doctrine of the Transmutationists.
1847 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 355 You have introduced several sentences against us Transmutationists.
1850 Fraser's Mag. 42 368 The author of the Vestiges, like the older transmutationists, assumes the mammals of the sea as the ancestors of the mammals of the land.
1866 Reader 20 Feb. 153/2 Owen..pleads..strongly and manfully in favour of the transmutationist doctrine.
1909 Q. Rev. Oct. 421 When Darwin first propounded his doctrine of descent..there were few ‘transmutationists’.
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