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Definition of Cacogenic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced.
Partainyms: Cacogenics, Dysgenics
Derivative terms: Cacogenics, Dysgenics
Antonyms: Eugenic
Definition of Cacogenic
1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or relating to cacogenesis. ¹
2. Adjective. (archaic) Tending toward racial deterioration through bad sexual selection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacogenic
Literary usage of Cacogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Hygiene Bulletin by American Social Hygiene Association (1920)
"... it shall be the duty of said court to declare the particular propositus to be
a cacogenic person, and to command the state eugenicist to arrest, ..."
2. Eugenics: Twelve University Lectures by Morton Arnold Aldrich, Charles Benedict Davenport, Charles Abram Ellwood, Arthur Holmes, Harvey Ernest Jordan, Albert Galloway Keller, Edward Lee Thorndike, Victor Clarence Vaughan, Herbert John Webber, Robert Henry Wolcott, William Henry Howell, Willi (1914)
"cacogenic families are illustrated by the Jukes, the Ishmaelites, ... and cacogenic
families are evidence of a real social stratification in our population. ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"No excuse or apology is necessary for having, hitherto, devoted the energies of
the Office so largely to the cacogenic side. First of all, social needs ..."
4. Year books by Plainfield High School (Plainfield, N.J.) (1919)
"No excuse or apology is necessary for having, hitherto, devoted the energies of
the Office so largely to the cacogenic side. First of all, social needs ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"... because defectively drawn so that it can not be applied to the feeble-minded,
the most important of the cacogenic classes which come under its scope. ..."
6. Penology in the United States by Louis Newton Robinson (1922)
"499-501; "Sterilization Studies of the Committee on cacogenic Control," Journal
of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology (1918-1919), IX, ..."
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