transformistn.
/trɑːnsˈfɔːmɪst//transˈfɔːmɪst/ 1. One who is occupied in transforming. humorous nonce-use.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation
forschuppild?c1225
converter1533
transformer1601
plantator1616
transformator1617
transmogrifier1676
new broom1799
transformist1799
denaturalizer1832
catalyser1904
wind (also winds) of change1905
catalyst1943
touchpaper1968
1799 J. MacGowan Dial. Devils i. 11 As for the barbers, they are a set of transformists, established wholly by my dexterity.
2. An adherent of transformism. Also attributive or as adj.
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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
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > social ethics > [noun] > transformism and its adherents
transformista1879
transformism1885
transformationist1888
a1879 Pusey in Athenæum 19 July 83/1 We think the transformist theories a mere imagination.
1885 Athenæum 17 Oct. 510/2 The transformist ‘conference’ at Paris last year was an eloquent lecture by M. Ch. Letourneau on the evolution of morals. The concluding remarks are as follows: ‘In that which relates to education, I am sorry to differ entirely from the principal founder of transformism in morals, H. Spencer’.
1890 Pop. Sc. Monthly Dec. 257 Agardh..was a little too earnest a transformist, and believed that certain algæ could become animals.
Derivatives
transforˈmistic adj. of or pertaining to transformism or transformists.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [adjective]
developing1808
evolutionary1810
evolutive1823
evolutional1862
derivative1871
historical1875
evolutionistic1885
transformistic1887
pre-evolutionary1889
1887 Nature 24 Feb. 389/2 In the chapter on the first appearance of man, the various transformistic theories are passed in review.
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