diluvialistn.
Geology.
One who explains certain geological features by the hypothesis of a universal deluge, or of an extraordinary movement of the waters.
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Neptunian1799
Neptunist1802
Wernerian1815
diluvialist1838
submarinist1868
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 129/1 The fanciful diluvialists, who followed in the wake of Woodward.
1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) ii. 45 The diluvialist, still retaining his floating ice~bergs as the most efficient agents in the transport of drift and erratic blocks to regions distant.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) vi. 113 Battles of opinion..between Cosmogonists, Diluvialists, and Fossilists.
1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 896/3 Would have delighted the heart of Murchison and the older school of diluvialists.
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