The Collaborative International Dictionary
abiogeny
Abiogenesis \Ab`i*o*gen"e*sis\, n. [Gr. 'a priv. + bi`os life + ge`nesis, origin, birth.] (Biol.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may
be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of
abiogenesis.
--Huxley,
1870.
Wiktionary
abiogeny
n. (context biology English) abiogenesis.