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Ovism
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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 spermatozoon; - opposed to spermism or animalculism.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ovism'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/ovism.html. 1828.