a. [f. prec. + -IC.] a. Tending to support the doctrine of evolution. ¶ b. Tending to produce evolution.
1883. Daily News, 21 Sept., 6/1. The address was a striking array of facts, all evolutionistic in their character.
1885. C. Dixon, in Nature, XXXIII. 128/2. Nor do I consider it fair for Mr. Romanes to infer that isolation, &c., do not explain the cause of variation, and therefore that they fail as evolutionistic agents.
