Vestigian

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adjective

Of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.

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Meanings

adjectiveVestigian (not comparable)
  1. historicalnot comparableOf or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.
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    Nay, let us but consider this, that, under a general creationary theory,—before any one evolutionary doctrine, Lamarckian, Vestigian, Erasmo-Darwinian, Carlo-Darwinian, or other, came up,—never, whether in affinities, or embryology, or geology, or geography, or even rudimentary organs, was there a single difficulty felt, […]

    1894, James Hutchison Stirling, Darwinianism: workmen and work

Origin

By surface analysis, vestige + -ian.

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