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▪ I. † genitor1, genitory Obs.
Chiefly pl. Forms: α. 4 geny-, gene-, genitras, -traces, 4, 7 gene-, (5 genytours), 7 genitoir(e)s, 5 geny-, 6 genitores, 6–7 geniturs; β. 5 genetoryes, 6 gene-, geny-, 6–8 genitories.
[a. OF. genitoir (usu. pl. genitoirs, génitoirẹs), app. f. L. type *genitōrium.]
A testicle; pl. the testicles, but in later use = genitals. (Cf. geniture.)
13..Minor poems of Vernon MS. xxxvii. 276 Men miȝte, ȝif his brech weore to-tore, seon his genitras [rime has]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 315 Who þat took a womman by strengþ schulde lese his genitras [v.r. genitraces]. 1398― Barth. De P.R. vii. lv. (1495) 269 Yf it happe that thys Hernia is broke a grete deele of the bowels falle downe in to the codde of the genetours. 1481Caxton Myrr. ii. vi. 73 Castours..whan they ben honted..byte wyth their teeth their owne genytoirs or ballocks and lete them falle. 1483― G. de la Tour E v, And they kyt awey the Genytoryes of the sayde monk. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 7 a, Of the genytories or stones of generation. 1574T. Hill Conject. Weather iv, If his right genitour be trussed up..then doth he beget a Ewe lambe. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 309 The same..healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 276 His sonnes deprived of their sight, and spoiled of their genitoires. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xcix. 137 The Ashes..are used..to cleanse and heal old ulcers and sores, as well in the Genitories as other parts of the body. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. xlviii. (1737) 194 He has Genitories.
b. In adjectival use: members genitors.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 223 b/2 Thys synne may in no wyse be forgyuen But yf he cutte of his membris genytores.
▪ II. genitor2|ˈdʒɛnɪtər|
Also 5 genytur, 6 genitour.
[a. L. genitor begetter, parent, f. *gen-, root of gignĕre to beget, bear. The earliest forms are a. F. geniteur, ad. L. genitōr-em.]
a. A male parent, father; in pl. = parents. Now rare.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 156 These thre.. dyvydyd the possessyoun Of her genyturs. 1537Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Convoc. D ij, They..that were the wise fathers and genitours of this purgatorie, were, in my mynde, the wysest of all their generation. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 57 Whosoever is generated is from him which is the genitor. 1665Hooke Microgr. 192 In those places are found all the convenient causes of their production, namely, genitors, or Parents [etc.]. 1818Keats Endym. i. 300 High genitors, unconscious did they cull Time's sweet first-fruits. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 90 A son, worthy of his august genitor, in happy hour is born to your Majesty.
b. spec. in Anthropol. (See quots.)
1949E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Structure 86 When, as often happens among the Nuer, the physiological father, the genitor, is a different man from the sociological father, the pater, his sons will not marry into his minimal lineage. 1963Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XIV. 24 We use the words genitor and pater to distinguish between the begetter of a child and its legal father.
Hence geniˈtorial a., parental. rare—1.
1847Medwin Shelley I. 158 Sir Timothy was a man entertaining high notions of genitorial rights. |