释义 |
evolutionism|ɛvəˈljuːʃənɪz(ə)m| [f. as prec. + -ism.] The theory of evolution or development.
1869Huxley in Sci. Opin. 28 Apr. 487/1 The three schools of geological speculation which I have termed Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and Evolutionism. 1872E. Fry in Spectator 21 Sept. 1201 Evolutionism does not propose to explain the unfolding of life out of dead matter. 1873Dawson Earth & Man xiv. 348 Evolutionism..excluded creation and theism. |