Meanings
nounætiologist (plural ætiologists)
plural ætiologists
- obsoleteObsolete form of etiologist.
While the embryologist and palæontologist study and describe the facts of Ontogeny and Phylogeny, the ætiologist seeks to reach a rational explanation of each of these processes.
1903, A. C. Haddon, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume XXXIII, page 12
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