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English
Etymology
From French emboîtement.
Noun
emboîtement (uncountable)
- (biology, now historical) The outdated hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, enclosed one within another.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:[R]ivals professed to see an equivalent in the semen, giving rise to the ‘preformation’ or emboîtement theories which contended that the new individual was completely developed as a tiny homunculus from the moment of conception.
French
Etymology
From emboîter (“to fit together”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
emboîtement m (plural emboîtements)
- interlocking, stacking
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