preformationist
nounEtymology From preformation + -ist.
1
Biology, Natural sciences Historical A proponent of the theory of preformationism.
- Preformationists rejoined that Harveian epigenesis was unscientific, for such a virtue could not be observed.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 219:
- Derived terms
- antipreformationist