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ovism


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ovism  \O"vism\,  n.  [Ovum  +  -ism.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  The  old  theory  that  the  egg  contains  the  whole  embryo  of  the 
  future  organism  and  the  germs  of  all  subsequent  offsprings 
  and  is  merely  awakened  to  activity  by  the  spermatozo["o]n;  -- 
  opposed  to  {spermism}  or  {animalculism}.