Darwinizingn.adj.

1807 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 388 Did Sir W. R. believe that a Male & female Ownce..would have produced in course of generations a Cat—or a Cat a Lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

1897 E. Ingersoll Wild Neighbors iii. 85 I have no disposition to deny the practical service it is to the species possessing such brittle tails..but some of the darwinizing it has received is beyond my following.

1923 H. W. Conn & H. J. Conn Bacteriol. iii. 42 One of the first attempts to obtain pure cultures of non-pathogenic organisms was by a method that has sometimes been called ‘Darwinizing’ because it depends upon the principle of natural selection.

1976 Proc. Biennial Meeting Philos. Sci. Assoc. 2 24 In what sense is it a caricature of the Darwinian method, idle Darwinizing, rather than a genuine revelation of the origin and meaning of human social activity?

2002 Contemp. Sociol. 31 358 Many who propose a ‘Darwinizing’ of sociology do so without engaging or respecting what conventional sociologists think and do.

1886 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 419 I heartily wish these astonishing pages were engraved on marble plates and put into the drawing-room of every intemperately Darwinizing philosopher.

1912 R. R. Marett Anthropology i. 11 Nobody much minds so long as the darwinizing kind of history confines itself to outsiders.

2011 R. Dellamora Radclyffe Hall v. 130 The identification of Susan with a naturalizing, even Darwinizing, definition of woman is by no means merely Hilary's.