Biol. [f. Gr. ἄβιος without life + -γεν-ής born, produced + -IST.] One who holds the hypothesis of abiogenesis.
1870. Huxley, Crit. & Addr. (1873), x. 233. It has been a common objection of Abiogenists that, if the doctrine of Biogeny is true, the air must be thick with germs.
1877. Echo, 22 Oct., 4/1. Except to the Abiogenists, or believers in spontaneous generation, the origin of the first protoplasmic mass is just as much a problem, whether it is fashioned from ordinary matter, or originates from matter infused and organised by a spiritual substance.
