palingeneses

Noun

palingenesis (countable and uncountable, plural palingeneses)

1. (also, figuratively, uncountable) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
   • The elegant and fashionable female of London, would start back with horror and consternation—with loathing and disgust—could palingeneses of her ancient ancestors be presented to her.1836 February 27, Ed. Binns, “A Few Facts, Preliminary to a Philosophical Examination of Negro Intellect”, in The London Medical and Surgical Journal, volume I, number 5, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page...

   Synonyms:

   palingenesia, palingenesy, renaissance, resuscitation, revival

   1. (also, figuratively) The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
      • Schelling set himself the fundamental task of establishing a channel of ascensional intelligibility from the origins of creation to man, and even beyond man, in which the doctrines of survival and palingenesis, so dear to the Gnostics, found all their significance. Thus, the evolution of nature was...2012, Michel Meulders, Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience, page 28
   2. (also, figuratively, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
      • [I]t was averred that all germs, or ova, were originally created—each thing living at this hour, having proceeded from a germ which was included within the germ of its antecedent, back as far as the original creation; […] This evolution doctrine was opposed by the Pythagorean idea of a...1848, Charles D[elucena] Meigs, “Letter XXIX”, in Females and Their Diseases; a Series of Letters to His Class, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 387
2. (historical, obsolete, uncountable) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
   • [P]alingenesis is to be seen in the Ectoprocta, cœnogenesis in the Entoprocta.1882 August, “Summary of Current Researches Relating to Zoology and Botany (Principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), Microscopy, &c., Including Original Communications from Fellows and Others”, in...

   Synonyms:

   palingeny, recapitulation

   Antonyms:

   caenogenesis

3. (uncountable) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.
   • This process of regeneration of magma has been called palingenesis by [Jakob] Sederholm, who ascribes to it many of the Archæan granite and granodiorite masses of Fennoscandia.1926 November 11, G[eorge] W[alter] Tyrrell, “Metasomatism and Additive Processes of Metamorphism”, in The Principles of Petrology: An Introduction to the Science of Rocks, 10th edition, London...