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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Previous delineation.
- n. The theory or doctrine of the animalculists of the last century, who considered the whole body of an individual to be preformed in a spermatozoön, and the figure to be predelineated in the head and other parts of the sperm-cells.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Previous delineation.
Etymologies
- pre- + delineation (Wiktionary)
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“Making things even more complicated, by the late 19th century “preformationism” really was less about the preexistence of form as such than about various versions of predetermination or predelineation.”
“According to the advocates of preformation or predelineation, the growth of the embryo was merely the expansion or evolution of a miniature organism.”
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