“transmutationist”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

transmutationist

释义

transmuˈtationist
[f. prec. + -ist.]
One who believes in or advocates a theory of transmutation, esp. that of the transmutation of species in organic nature; a transformist. Also attrib.
It might also be, and prob. has been, applied to one believing in the transmutation of metals: an explanation given in Dictionaries from Worcester onward.
1844Monthly Rev. Mar. 384 It is the doctrine of the Transmutationists.1847Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 355 You have introduced several sentences against us Transmutationists.1850Fraser's Mag. XLII. 368 The author of the Vestiges, like the older transmutationists, assumes the mammals of the sea as the ancestors of the mammals of the land.1866Reader 20 Feb. 153/2 Owen..pleads..strongly and manfully in favour of the transmutationist doctrine.1909Q. Rev. Oct. 421 When Darwin first propounded his doctrine of descent..there were few ‘transmutationists’.

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