Vestigianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Vestigian (not comparable)

1. (historical) Of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.
   • 1894, James Hutchison Stirling, Darwinianism: workmen and work:

     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, […]