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Definition of Preformat
1. [v -MATTED, -MATTING, -MATS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preformat
Literary usage of Preformat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... of embryology (qv), and entirely dis[>elled the old-time preformation views.
BIBLIOGRAPH YO Hertwig, The Biological Problem of To-Day: preformat ion or ..."
2. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1899)
"... of the two great views of embryonic development that have been and still are
held by thinking students of nature —preformat ion and ep {genesis. ..."
3. The Cell; Outlines of General Anatomy and Physiology by Oscar Hertwig, Henry Johnstone Campbell (1895)
"The sharp antagonism which existed between the theories of preformat.ion and
Epigenesis has been diminished in these theories, in that in certain respects ..."
4. The Isizulu: A Revised Edition of a Grammar of the Zulu Language; with an by Lewis Grout (1893)
"These pronouns or preformat!ves, which cooperate with a to denote the genitive
case (see § 115), are as follows ;— For the first class, singular w, ..."
5. The Physical Basis of Mind by George Henry Lewes (1893)
"... with which Wolff for ever displaced the doctrine «f preformat ion, leads by
an inevitable logic to the doctrine of universal Evolution; and that we can ..."
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