atavistical
English
Adjective
atavistical (comparative more atavistical, superlative most atavistical)
- atavistic
- 1914, Francis H. Buzzacott, Mystery of the Sexes: Secrets of Past and Future Human Creationism, page 39:
- Atavistical reversions: In biology the restoration of structural characters which have long been lost or obscured; near return to an original type occurring through partly modified descendants; resemblance to remote ancestors or progenitors; partial return, through hereditary influences, of remote ancestral forms.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:
- All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups.
- 1996, Hilton Hotema, The Great Red Dragon, Health Research, page 44:
- Atavistical reversion may reach back to the very beginning of humanity, and some qualities of the first Great Mother may appear in the child of today.
- 1914, Francis H. Buzzacott, Mystery of the Sexes: Secrets of Past and Future Human Creationism, page 39:
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