Pretergeneration

Quick meaning: Pretergeneration is a noun meaning (rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth.

Meaning

(rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth.

Example Sentences

In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.

Because Bacon does not provide any analysis of pretergenerations in his natural histories, I claim that the process of generating artificial individuals that deviate from their species exhibits important aspects of Bacon's view on how nature is constrained and deviated from its own course.

Word Forms

• pretergenerations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preternature, praeternature, pregeneration, predegeneration, prematuration, preternaturalism.

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