Definition of Nomogeny

1. natural rather than religious account of the origin of life [n NOMOGENIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nomogeny

nominee
nominees
nomino-
nominoaccusative
nominor
nominors
nomism
nomisma
nomismata
nomisms
nomistic
nommed
nomming
nomocracies
nomocracy
nomogeny (current term)
nomogram
nomograms
nomograph
nomographic
nomographies
nomographs
nomography
nomoi
nomologic
nomological
nomologically
nomologies
nomology
nomopelmous

Literary usage of Nomogeny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"... was the transference real, consequent on nomogeny or the incoming of species by secondary law, the mode of operation of which we have still to learn ? ..."

2. Essays historical and theological by James Bowling Mozley (1884)
"The argument is thus independent of all theories of elementary formation— Evolution,1 Epigenesis, nomogeny, ..."

3. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"In silence it contemplates the marvels of the new creation hourly springing into existence, built up ab initio by epigenetic " nomogeny," the offspring of ..."

4. The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain by Benjamin Franklin Cocker (1875)
"So that now Creation by Law (nomogeny) is the watchword of this school of thinkers. The men who have defined law as "the uniformity of relations among ..."

5. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"Or was the transference real, consequent on nomogeny, or the incoming of species by secondary law, the mode and way of operation of which we have still to ..."

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