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Meaning of Vestigian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Of or relating to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.

historical, not-comparable

Examples

“Nay, let us but consider this, that, under a general creationary theory,—before any one evolutionary doctrine, Lamarckian, Vestigian, Erasmo-Darwinian, Carlo-Darwinian, or other, came up,—never, whether in affinities, or embryology, or geology, or geography, or even rudimentary organs, was there a single difficulty felt, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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