a. and sb. [f. as next + -IAN.] a. adj. Of or pertaining to Weismann or his biological theory. b. sb. One who accepts the theory of Weismannism.
1889. J. A. Ryder, in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., XXVI. 545. The mainspring of evolution or its motive force is to be sought in sexuality and not in the Weismannian speculations.
1903. Amer. Naturalist, May, 349. The line of argument will probably not be convincing to even the milder Weismannians.
1903. Science, 5 June, 906/1. The method … in which … there is no reduction division in the Weismannian sense.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 30 March, 1/3. Objections to the Weismannian theories.
