Word Meanings - DARWINISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.

Related words: (words related to DARWINISM)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• FORTHRIGHTNESS
  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• THEORY
  1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation. Note: "This word is employed by English writers in a very loose and improper sense. It is with them usually
• FORTHWITH
  As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
• FORTHGOING
  A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• FORTHRIGHT
  Straight forward; in a straight direction. Sir P. Sidney.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• FORTH
  1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this
• FORTHBY
  See FORBY
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• GERM THEORY
  The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis. 2. The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• SIDE-CHAIN THEORY
  A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outline it is as follows: Animal cells and bacteria are complex aggregations of molecules, which are themselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• FERFORTH
  Far forth. As ferforth as, as far as. -- So ferforth, to such a degree.