Definition of Palinginesis
{ Pal`in*gen"e*sis (?), Pal`in*gen"e*sy (?), }
n. [Gr. &?;; &?; again + &?; birth: cf. F.
palingénésie. See Genesis.]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration;
a continued existence in different manner or form.
2. (Biol.) That form of evolution in
which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are
reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished
from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt
metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (biology) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
- (Christian theology) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul in Christian baptism.
- recapitulation (sense 3)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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