Darwinite

English

Etymology

From Darwin +‎ -ite.

Noun

Darwinite (countable and uncountable, plural Darwinites)

1. Synonym of Darwinian
   1. One who believes in Darwinian evolution.
      • 1879, Henry Strickland Constable, Fashions of the Day in Medicine and Science: A Few More Hints:

        Oh, but, guesses our ingenious Darwinite, in this breed the male birds courted the bright-coloured ones and neglected the others, and thus a bright-coloured race has survived by natural selection.

      • 1890 September 15, C. Carter Blake, “Our Fallen Brethren”, in Lucifer, volume 7, number 37, page 54:

        The appeal to the unknown and the imaginary is the modus operandi of the modern Darwinite.

      • 2004, Cressida Fforde, Collecting the Dead: Archaeology and the Reburial Issue, page 28:

        In fact, as was already being demonstrated by German anatomist Carl Vogt, a polygenist and Darwinite, the theory of natural selection could easily be used within a strictly polygenist framework by arguing that the different races had evolved separately from different species of anthropoid apes (Hunt 1866: 339).

   2. Someone from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
      • 1933, Charles Henry Holmes, We Find Australia, page 68:

        Our introduction to the amazing wildfowl in the north was at the end of a forty-mile run, due east of Darwin near the Adelaide River, with Jim Ward, a Darwinite, at the wheel of a highpowered car.

      • 1987, Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk, The Australian adventure:

        Australia's north pole has a magnetic charm, and like many others, you could become a permanent statistic — something the locals are proud to call a Darwinite.

      • 2014, Tess Lea, Darwin:

        Life wasn't easy for the Chinese, even if they knew how to be self-sufficient, fourth-generation Darwinite Laurence Ah Toy reminds me.

2. A silver-grey arsenide of copper (Cu₁₈As).
   • 1860, D. Forbes, “On Darwinite, a new Mineral Species from Chile”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 423:

     The name Darwinite has been adopted in honour of Darwin, whose admirable geological examination of this part of South America is so well known as to require no comment.

   • 1866, Report of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Volume 35, page 29:

     The mineral Darwinite was proved identical with a mineral which had been about same time found at Lake Superior, and which had been called Whitneyite.

   • 2008, Bernhard Pracejus, The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope: An Optical Guide, page 92:

     Algodonite (Whitneyite, Darwinite).

   • 2015, Robert Simmons, Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones:

     Darwinite is a stone of loving relationship.