cacogenic, a.
(kækəʊˈdʒɛnɪk)
[f. caco- after eugenic a.; cf. cacogenesis.]
The reverse of eugenic; = dysgenic a. Hence cacoˈgenics n. pl., the breeding of a weak race (opp. eugenics).
| 1917 W. R. Inge in Edin. Rev. Jan. 80 How will it escape the cacogenic effects of family restriction in the better classes combined with reckless multiplication among the refuse? 1920 ― in Daily Tel. 28 May 7/2 The new practice of subsidising the unsuccessful by taxes extorted from the industrious was cacogenics erected into a principle. 1929 R. R. Gates Heredity in Man 280 Out of 399 fertile marriages about 176 might be classed as eugenic matings and 223 as cacogenic. |