genethlialogy (jenethlialoji)

[ The truth of astrological predictions is not to be referred to the constellations; the genethliaticks conjecture by the disposition, temper, and complexion of the person. Drummond, genetic (jē-net'ik), a. and n. [= F. génétique, So inscrutable is genetic history; impracticable the theory of causation, and transcends all calculus of man's devising. Carlyle, Misc., IV. 78. The higher kinds of literature [are] the only kinds that live on, because they had life at the start,. born of some genetic principle in the character of the people and the age which produce them. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 219. Genetic affinity, in biol., relationship by direct descent; true affinity, implying genetic relationship expre ed in morphological characters, as distinguished from any su genial perficial resemblance, however close, which results from adaptive modification. - Genetic definition. (a) The definition of a kind (originally of a geometrical figure) by means of a rule for the production of an individual of that kind. (b) The definition of a natural kind by means of an explanation of how such things first came to be. - Genetic method, that method in philosophy and science which endeavors to throw light upon the natures of things of different kinds by considering in what manner such objects have come into being. II. n. A medicine which acts on the sexual organs. [Rare.] genetical (jē-net'i-kal), a. [ need not be genetically con Dawson. IMG:content-2201.jpg:[graphic] These types of life nected with each other. geneting (jen'et-ing), n. Same as jenneting . Genetta (je-net'ä), n. [NL.: see genet2 .] Agenus of Viverrid a , distinguished from Viverra by the lack of a pouch for the civet; the genets proper. G. vulgar is is the common genet, formerly called Viverra genetta . There are several other species, as the berbe, G. pardina , the Senegal genet, G. senega lens is , etc. See cut under genet2 .