[f. Gr. βιο-, BIO- + γένεσις birth, production.] (See quot.) Hence Biogenesist, one who holds the theory of biogenesis.
1870. Huxley, Addr. Brit. Assoc., in Nature, 15 Sept., 401. The hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter … to save circumlocution, I shall call the hypothesis of Biogenesis.
1878. Tait & Stewart, Unseen Univ., vii. § 243. To receive the law of Biogenesis as expressing the present order of the world.
