Lexicographical Neighbors of Preformationist
Literary usage of Preformationist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1912)
"Both the epigenetic and the preformationist theories of the eighteenth century
... On the one hand, is the preformationist theory of determinants devised ..."
2. The Science of Life: An Outline of the History and Biology and Its Recent by John Arthur Thomson (1899)
"Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries almost all embryological
thinking was dominated by this preformationist creed, and many of the disciples ..."
3. The Philosophy of Religion: Lectures Written for the Elliott Lectureship at by Alexander Thomas Ormond (1922)
"The primary germ- cell may not have in it all the definite potentiality which
the preformationist ascribes to it, but when all deductions have been made, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Beyond this point Weis- mann again becomes a preformationist, as truly as
Democritus, in that he now conjectures that the supposed innumerable latent buds ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Beyond this point Weismann again becomes a preformationist, as truly as Democritus,
in that he now conjectures that the supposed innumerable latent buds of ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... the old theological or spiritual theories, the metaphysical theories of foetus
in primordio in potentia, and the preformationist theories (homunculus in ..."
7. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... century the same term was employed to designate the process of the generation
of individual organisms as conceived by the preformationist,—ie, ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... under the influence of the current preformationist ideas, interpreted these
actively moving bodies in the seminal fluids as preformed germs and ..."
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