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Vestigian

Vestigian adjective: of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.

Adjective

Vestigian (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.
    • Nay, let us but consider this, that, under a general creationary theory,—before any one evolutionary doctrine, Lamarckian, Vestigian, Erasmo-Darwinian, Carlo-Darwinian, or other, came up,—never, whether in affinities, or embryology, or geology, or geography, or even rudimentary organs, was there a...1894, James Hutchison Stirling, Darwinianism: workmen and work

Origin of Vestigian

By surface analysis, vestige + -ian.

Questions about Vestigian

What does Vestigian mean?
Vestigian means of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.
What part of speech is Vestigian?
Vestigian is an adjective.

Words near Vestigian in the dictionary

  1. vestigializations
  2. vestigialize
  3. vestigialized
  4. vestigially
  5. vestigials
  6. Vestigian
  7. vestigiary
  8. vestigium
  9. vestigy
  10. vestimeniferan
  11. vestiment

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