geogonicadj.

1802 Crit. Rev. 34 505 ‘Geogonic and Chemical Reflexions [Fr. réflexions géogoniques et chimiques] on Volcanoes’, by J. J. Virey, of Val de Grace.

1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. xix. 471 The ideas of the Orientalists furnish the Greeks with the foundation on which they have reared all their fanciful geogonic superstructures.

1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 16 238 A vast slow geogonic movement had been ever in progress, giving to all waters a general trend much further eastward than Calcutta.

1935 A. Wolf Hist. Sci. Technol. & Philos. xvi. 353 The most valuable geogonic suggestion came from Newton, who, in 1692..indicated how the principle of gravitation might be used to explain the formation of the Earth and of all heavenly bodies.

2006 I. H. Grant Philos. Nature after Schelling iv. 128 Either naturalists had to find a reducibly organic continuum to set alongside..its geological counterpart, or integrate geogonic and biogenetic time.

1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. xix. 470 The Hebrews..have also preserved a most interesting tradition..namely, that of six geogonical epochs.

1922 N. H. Dole Amer. in Spitzbergen I. i. ix. 151 Professor Miethe..looked on the Spitsbergen landscapes with a keen interest in their geological and geogonical aspects.

2004 D. N. Tripathi Hellenism & Hinduism iv. 105 Lucas..thinks that for Homer Night was the supreme geogonical conception.