zoogonichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoogonic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoogonic, adj.
Revised 2017

zoogonicadjective

  1. 1787–
    Of or relating to the generation or development of animals or living things generally; life-producing, generative. Cf. zoogony n.
    1. 1787
      Rhea, according to the Orphic and Platonic theology, is one of the zoogonic or vivific principles of the universe.
      T. Taylor in translation of Mystical Initiations xiii. 137 (note)
    2. 1788
      The zoogonic, or vivific goddess [Greek ὡς τῆς ζωογόνου θεότητος].
      T. Taylor, translation of Proclus, Philosophical & Mathematical Commentaries vol. I. 118
    3. 1842
      These zoogonic elements can become combined and associated one with another so as to produce a variation in animality.
      Medical Times 17 December 182/3
    4. 1845
      Hephaestus is generative fire; the Zoogonic heat of the sun.
      W. Watkiss Lloyd, Xanthian Marbles 41
    5. 1902
      The number 216 maintains its character as a matrimonial and generative force: for it is the cube of the area of the zoogonic triangle and the product of the cubes of the first male and female numbers.
      J. Adam, Republic Plato vol. II. 293
    6. 1987
      The theologians have supposed the source of Nature to be the zoogonic goddess.
      G. R. Morrow & J. M. Dillon in translation of Proclus, Comm. Plato's Parmenides (1992) 183 (Comm.)
    7. 2005
      The geological conditions of the Nile Delta may have inspired Anaximander's ‘evolutionary’ zoogonic and anthropogonic ideas.
      Isis vol. 96 423/1

zoogonic, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zoogonic, adj. was last modified in July 2023.