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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the history or course of an organic type during the period or stage of its rise, as distinguished from the period of its full maintained vigor (metaplasis) and the period of its decline or decadence (*cataplasis).
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And it is very probable, that seeing God created our first parents, not infants, or old men, but of a perfect age or stature, the anaplasis, or new creation from death, shall every way be more perfect than the plasis, or first frame of man, from which he fell into the state of the dead.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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