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单词 preformationist
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preformationistn.adj.

Brit. /ˌpriːfɔːˈmeɪʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌpriːfɔːˈmeɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌprifɔrˈmeɪʃənəst/
Forms: 1800s praeformationist, 1800s– preformationist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: preformation n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < preformation n. + -ist suffix.
Biology and History of Science.
A. n.
A person who advocates or believes in the theory of preformation (preformation n. 2).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
transmutationist1844
progressionist1845
developist1846
developmentist1847
monogenist1857
polygenist1857
Darwinian1860
Darwinite1860
developmentarian1860
permutationist1860
developmentalist1862
monogenesist1862
polygenesist1862
Darwinist1864
evolutionist1866
natural selectionist1869
homogenist1874
derivationist1875
transformista1879
hereditarian1881
hereditist1885
derivatist1887
preformationist1888
fortuitist1890
Lamarckite1890
neo-Lamarckian1890
neo-Darwinist1891
vestigian1891
neo-Darwinian1892
selectionist1892
preformist1895
recapitulationist1897
transmissionist1899
Mendelian1903
mutationist1903
Weismannian1903
adaptationist1904
Mendelist1906
Lysenkoist1949
Morganist1950
Lamarckian1953
gradualist1970
macromutationist1975
punctuationalist1978
saltationist1978
punctuationist1980
1888 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 815/1 The so-called ‘evolutionists’ of the eighteenth century, better called præformationists.
1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 343 No one denies,..excepting consistent preformationists, that they are more or less inheritable.
1930 F. J. Cole Early Theories Sexual Generation viii. 207 The term ovist or ovarist has been applied indifferently to the preformationist and epigeneist.
2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex ii. 199 The Preformationists, with their roller-coaster names—Spallazani, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek—believed that all of humankind had existed in miniature since Creation, in either the semen of Adam or the ovary of Eve, each person tucked inside the next like a Russian nesting doll.
B. adj.
Of or relating to preformationists or the theory of preformation.
ΚΠ
1906 Biometrika 5 147 The definite formulation of the preformationist doctrine of ‘Selbstdifferenzirung’ and ‘Mosaikarbeit’.
1973 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 122 326 Preformationist prejudices were so powerful that early embryologists..‘saw’ nonexistent miniature adults when viewing embryos through their microscopes.
1992 S. Rose Making of Memory 54 Van Leeuwenhoek..described each individual spermatozoon as a perfectly formed, minuscule mannikin, thus reinforcing a long-held preformationist superstition about human reproduction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1888
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