Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Previous delineation.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Previous delineation.
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- noun
previous delineation
Etymologies
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pre- + delineation
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Examples
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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.
Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005
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According to the advocates of preformation or predelineation, the growth of the embryo was merely the expansion or evolution of a miniature organism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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