Bible Dictionaries
Palingenesy

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

(2):

(n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; - distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Palingenesy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/palingenesy.html. 1828.