autogeneticadj.

1859 Amer. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 9 303 The anatomical elements of the tooth develop spontaneously, according to us, (autogenetic generation) from the surface of the germs without direct participation of their tissue.

1903 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 11 655 The chapter on the autogenetic forces deals with the human agent in the process of production, and very suggestively discusses the place and method of intelligence in industry.

1963 H. H. Kleinman Relig. Sonnets of Dylan Thomas i. 21 We learn..that he comes from the Heaven's egg, a reference to one of many autogenetic myths of God creating himself out of an egg.

1997 S. Connor in R. Porter Rewriting Self 203 Only by such an act of autogenetic faith..can the self give rise to itself in the characteristically modern, modernist and, some would say, rather more than implicitly masculinist manner.

2009 Guardian Unlimited (Nexis) 7 Dec. I try to keep myself out of my work. Seizure is kind of autogenetic—growing by itself.

1865 R. Barnes in Lancet 11 Feb. 141/1 The poison which ferments into Fever is generated within the patient. This order of cases will be defined as Autogenetic.

1884 Med. News 24 May 610/1 Scarlatina is never held to be autogenetic.

1921 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Mar. 354/2 Nearly all these cases of ‘puerperal fever’ (or as they should now be termed ‘puerperal infection’) should be preventable, for true autogenetic cases are very rare.

1890 W. J. McGee in Proc. 38th Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 248 The Wisconsin driftless area extends into the extreme northeastern part of the state, and exhibits a water-carved sculpture of the autogenetic order.

1907 H. J. O. White Geol. Hungerford & Newbury x. 79 The Bedwyn Brook..and the east and west branches of the Shalbourne..are miniature examples of the autogenetic or subsequent type of stream.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 444/2 Isostatic recovery is partly hindered by water loading, and the lake basins persist as autogenetic features.

2000 G. Einsele Sedimentary Basins (ed. 2) vii. 325/1 One of the means for discriminating between allogenetic and autogenetic processes is stratigraphic correlation.

1874 Lancet 14 Feb. 250/1 Miss F—had died of pyæmia autogenetically produced.

1886 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Apr. 694/1 Some septic poison, either from without or autogenetically, might cause the same series of symptoms.

1959 Folklore 70 332 This great skill in art had been developed autogenetically.

1975 Geografiska Annaler A. 57 140/1 This may indicate that depressions..develop autogenetically at an equal rate both along bedding planes and perpendicular joints.

2001 H. R. Holcomb Conceptual Challenges Evolutionary Psychol. vi. 249 It posits that eating disorders are not autogenetically produced adaptations for eliminating unwanted pregnancies.