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A believer in Malthusian theory
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malthusian \Mal*thu"sian\, n. A follower of Malthus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1812, from the teachings of English economist Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1835), especially with regard to population increase. As an adjective by 1818. Related: Malthusianism .
Usage examples of malthusian.
The term, which originated from the narrow Malthusian conception of competition between each and all, thus lost its narrowness in the mind of one who knew Nature.
A larger proportion of squirrels of the new, better adapted variety would survive every year, and the intermediate links would die in the course of time, without having been starved out by Malthusian competitors.
But when all was said, he remained almost convinced that the Malthusian hypotheses would prove as false in the future as they had proved false in the past.
Remember the Malthusian doctrine, and that the mind breeds in even more rapid geometrical ratio than the body.
The Malthusian theory,- -the law of the increase of the population in geometrical, and of the means of subsistence in arithmetical proportion, and the wise and natural means of restricting the population,--all these have become scientific, indubitable truths, which have not been confirmed, but which have been employed as axioms, for the erection of false theories.
Exactly the same thing appeared to be the case with the Hegelian doctrine, in a greater degree, and also in the special instance of the Malthusian doctrine.
Committee of 300 ruled post industrial America, Peccei proposed a Malthusian triaging on a global scale.
Carlson rejoiced over the carnage that ensued, though a strict Malthusian might have considered it as a long-overdue pruning.
Millions died but world population continued its inexorable increase toward the Malthusian limits of starvation, plague, and war.
From the first, as far as he knew, the saurs had patiently explained the germ theory of disease and its consequences, and something like the Malthusian principle of population and its consequences.
Gold, who suggested the incorporation of a robot detective and the Malthusian outlook on overpopulation.
He talked about the riches waiting in space, escape from Malthusian limits to growth, the ability to save the species from such calamities as an asteroid collision with the Earth, and so forth.
Surely there must be some better, happier, humaner way between the Malthusian horns.
And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort.
It was a simple Malthusian Population differential equation, or a damped forced oscillator in engineering terms.