ovaristn.
/ˈəʊv(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərɪst/ Biology. rare (now historical).
= ovist n.
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animalculist1730
epigenesist1784
vermiculist1784
animalist1800
epigenist1803
ovarist1816
spermatist1836
ovist1838
creationist1856
seminist1857
vitalist1860
monogenist1868
nomogenist1868
panspermist1868
abiogenist1870
heterogenist1870
panspermatist1870
ovulist1879
adaptionist1888
abiogenesist1889
thaumatogenist1891
1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. II. 358 Ovarists, animalculists, and epigenesists.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Ovarists, those physiologists who think that the phenomena of generation..result from the development of the ova..of the female.
1871 J. King Amer. Eclectic Obstetr. (ed. 2) 92 The ovarists, among whom I may mention Harvey as the principal, having discovered numerous small vesicles in the ovaries, which apparently decrease according to the number of conceptions, held that these vesicles were the fetal germ, which only needed the animating power of the male semen to usher the new being into existence.
1930 F. J. Cole Early Theories Sexual Generation viii. 207 The term ovist or ovarist has been applied indifferently to the preformationist and epigeneist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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