a. [f. EPIGENESIS, on the analogy of GENETIC.] Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, epigenesis.
1883. W. Arthur, Fernley Lect., 160. Epigenetic [printed epigenitic] progress from germ to organ.
1887. Mind, Oct., 629. He … contends for an ‘epigenetic’ as distinguished from an evolutionary view of the origins of civilisation.
Hence Epigenetically adv.
