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ˈspermatist [ad. mod.L. *spermatista or F. spermatiste, f. L. spermat-, sperma sperm + -ist.] One who held the view that the sperm alone was the source of animal life.
1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 427/1 According to the..theory..of the Spermatists,..the male semen alone furnished all the vital parts of the new animal. 1899J. A. Thomson Sci. Life 125 Other observers, nicknamed ‘spermatists’ or ‘animalculists’, believed them [sc. spermatozoa] to be the earliest stages of the young animal. |