Definition of Spermist. Meaning of Spermist. Synonyms of Spermist

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Definition of Spermist

Spermist
Spermist Sperm"ist, n. (Biol.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.

Meaning of Spermist from wikipedia

- preformationists would oppose epigenicists, and, inside the preformationist camp, spermists (who claimed the homunculus must come from the man) to ovists, who located...
- animalcules in the **** of humans and other animals. This was the beginning of spermists' theory, which held that the sperm was in fact a "little man" that was...
- each sperm. These scientists formed a school of thought known as the "spermists". They contended the only contributions of the female to the next generation...
- animalcules. However, he only postulated their existence as part of his spermist theory of conception and never claimed to have seen them. The 1694 "Essay...