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engenderer|ɛnˈdʒɛndərə(r)|
Also 6–7 engendrer, ingenderer.
[f. engender v. + -er.]
One who or that which engenders.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 152 The mothers are called genitrices, that is engenderers. 1587Golding De Mornay v. 59 One is an ingenderer and another is ingendred, among men, a father and a sonne. 1596Bp. Andrewes Serm. II. 94 These [the prophets] also he strove to forget, and as ingenderers of melancholy to remove them far away. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. v. 45 Ease and idlenesse, the engendrers of all manner of crudities. 1636Davenant Witts in Dodsley (1780) VIII. 481 Thou dull ingenderer; Male rather in the back than in the brain. 1852Tait's Mag. XIX. 53 Still more disgusting engenderers of filth. |