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A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas"sian*ism, n.

An advocate of, or believer in, philanthropinism.

A believer in the existence of phlogiston.

A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.

ment; share; fate. The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. Luke xii. 46. Man's portion is to die and rise again. Keble.

A believer in positivism. -- a.

ompany or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in…

A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.

An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.

A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.

A believer in Spinozism.

A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.

To hold the same faith; to agree. [R.] The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them. G. S. Faber.

A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.

An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

A believer in traducianism.

Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.