geneticaladj.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια x. 736 Which Methode being Geneticall, we conceiue to be rather the way of Nature then of Art.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία Pref. sig. A viij^v I love books that make use of Sciences, not compile them into their Geneticall, or Analyticall Parcels.

1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. II. 100 Genetical Method teacheth us to frame a Discourse upon any Theme, and takes its Name from Genesis, because it is, as it were, a new Generation of a Thing.

1759 R. Dossie Inst. Exper. Chem. II. 43 They have an equally great genetical difference, in common, from resins.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 26/2 A complete picture and Genetical History of the Man and his spiritual Endeavour lies before you.

1841 R. W. Emerson Landor in Wks. (1906) III. 311 These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xiii. 277 That classification aimed at being a strictly genetical one.

1984 Renaissance Q. 37 81 In presenting this background Hamilton is insightful and cautious, but genetical connections are few, even the facts of Hendrik Niclaes' early life and mission, so that ultimately we must settle for a comparative study of events and ideas.

1910 Amer. Naturalist 44 108 (title) Genetical studies on Œnothera. Notes on the behavior of certain hybrids of Œnothera in the first generation.

1925 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 63 360 A greater knowledge of modern genetical work would save taxonomists from falling into some common errors.

1959 Listener 26 Nov. 920/2 Nucleic acids are the substances that embody genetical information.

1969 D. J. Mulvaney Prehist. Austral. 52 The Tasmanians are excluded from genetical research by reason of their extinction.

1998 M. Burgess & R. Green Down Neck (HBO TV shooting script) 30 in Sopranos 1st Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) Me. My father. My father's father... It's probably in the genes, like this ADD thing. It could all be genetical, right?