antipreformationist
English
editEtymology
editFrom anti- + preformationist.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editantipreformationist (comparative more antipreformationist, superlative most antipreformationist)
- Opposed to the theory of preformationism.
- 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 60:
- Leading the antipreformationist camp was William Harvey, the first scientist to correctly describe the circulation of blood.
- 2005, Ron Amundson, The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought, page 149:
- Despite his antipreformationist skepticism, he gradually became convinced both of the chromosome theory and of Mendelism by the discovery of Drosophila mutations that segregated with the sex chromosome.