Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds the theory of spermism or spermatism; an animalculist: the opposite of
ovulist . Seetheory of incasement , under incasement. Alsospermatist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical One who believed that the complete
human being was contained in thesperm rather than theovum .
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Examples
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"spermist," since he strongly argued against the incasement or
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Newt Gingrich's claim to be the one, true conservative is offset by the fact that Mitt Romney, a Massachusetts moderate, served as a Mormon bishop, an unimpeachable bone-a fide in some spermist circles.
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Newt Gingrich's claim to be the one, true conservative is offset by the fact that Mitt Romney, a Massachusetts moderate, served as a Mormon bishop, an unimpeachable bone-a fide in some spermist circles.
Soraya Chemaly: Republican Candidates to Debate Whose Sperm Is Most Sacred Soraya Chemaly 2012
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