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polygenist|pəˈlɪdʒɪnɪst|
[app. f. polygeny + -ist: cf. botany, botanist, etc. So F. polygéniste.]
An adherent of the theory of polygeny.
1861Sat. Rev. 23 Nov. 544 Among the polygenists (or upholders of a plurality of species) there are many sincere, if not very logical, Christians. 1881A. H. Keane in Nature XXIII. 251/1 All polygenists..have regarded the Malays as one of their human species.
attrib.1865Huxley Critiques & Addr. (1873) 163 The granting of the Polygenist premises does not, in the slightest degree, necessitate the Polygenist conclusion. 1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. Introd. 15 The opposite, a polygenist school..maintained the plurality of races.
Hence polygeˈnistic a., of or pertaining to polygenists or polygenism.
1879tr. De Quatrefages' Hum. Species 47 We shall have undermined the foundation of the whole polygenistic doctrine. |