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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to palingenesis.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to palingenesis: .

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to palingenesis.

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  • adjective of or relating to palingenesis

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Examples

  • Haeckel (1875) took cognizance of such facts by classifying as palingenetic the embryonic processes that are trans - mitted by heredity from ancestral forms, in contrast to coenogenetic ones which appear through adaptation to the needs of embryonic or larval life.

    RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968

  • Yet his bizarre blendings of hallucinogenic and palingenetic techniques have not won him many admirers outside the ghetto walls, since there readers are repelled by the shoddiness of the props he has adopted from the inventory of SF.

    Stanislaw Lem’s “Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans” 2010

  • In this matter, we must distinguish quite clearly between palingenetic and kenogenetic phenomena, between the original, inherited evolution and the later, vitiated evolution.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • In this matter, we must distinguish quite clearly between palingenetic and kenogenetic phenomena, between the original, inherited evolution and the later, vitiated evolution.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The loftiest and most suggestive of Egyptian palingenetic symbols is unquestionably that of the egg.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • Parsees -- according to the names they received at different periods -- have preserved the main points of palingenetic instruction up to the present, and, from time to time, have set them forth in the most charming style of Oriental poetry.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • It is worthy of note that the help of comparative anatomy is admittedly required in deciding what processes are palingenetic and what cenogenetic (p. 412).

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • Gastræa theory (1875), [378] he had to work out a distinction between palingenetic and cenogenetic characters, of which much use was made by subsequent writers.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • The gastrula stage was the palingenetic repetition of the ancestral form of all Metazoa, the Gastræa.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • I consider it an especial merit of the theory that it has established the identity of the development of the two middle layers in all the vertebrates, and has traced them as cenogenetic modifications back to the original palingenetic form of development that we still find in the amphioxus.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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