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▪ I. † ˈprocreate, ppl. a. (n.) Obs.
Also -at.
[ad. L. prōcreāt-us, pa. pple. of prōcre-āre to bring forth or beget, produce, cause, f. prō, pro-1 1 a + creāre to create.]
Procreated, begotten. (Usually construed as pa. pple.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 381 Diuerse kyndes of bestes whiche be procreate of commixtion. c1475Songs & Carols (Percy Soc.) 64 Syns that Eve was procreat owt of Adams syde. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 22 §4 All the issue hade and procreate, or hereafter to be had and procreate bytwene your Highnes and..Quene Anne. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. i. 121 b, Gif ane Burges..hes procreat bairnes with ilke ane of his wifes. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. 170 Some of these Kings, dying without procreate Heires.
B. n. The produce of money; interest.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 578 If the Paiment be half Yearly or Quarterly,..let the Log. of the Yearly Procreat be multiplied accordingly by ½ or 1/4.
▪ II. procreate, v.|ˈprəʊkriːeɪt|
[f. L. prōcreāt-, ppl. stem of prōcreāre: see prec.]
trans. To beget, engender, generate (offspring).
1536Act 28 Hen. VIII, c. 7 § 5 That the issue borne and procreated under the same vnlawfull mariage..betwene your Highnes, and the said Lady Katheryne, shall be taken demed and accepted illegittimate to all ententes and purposes. 1579Fenton Guicciard. xvi. (1599) 747 Their..hope to procreate children. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. 74 Animals..do not Procreate their Like, but when they are in their Vigor. 1730T. Boston Mem. i. 5 Four brothers and three sisters, procreated betwixt John Boston and Alison Trotter, a woman prudent and virtuous. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1872) 71 A pair of animals, producing..two hundred offspring, of which..only two on an average survive to procreate their kind.
b. absol. or intr. To produce offspring.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 94 If that be..female which procreates in it selfe;..all plants are female. 1792A. Young Trav. France 408 Couples marry and procreate on the idea, not the reality, of a maintenance; they increase beyond the demand of towns and manufactures.
c. trans. (transf. and fig.) To bring into existence, produce; to give rise to, occasion. Now rare.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. iii. 5 The Riuer Nilus, whiche for the lustye fatnesse of the slime, doeth procreat diuerse kyndes of beastes. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. iii. 11 b, That cause efficient..doth either procreate or bring forth that which was not before, as God the worlde. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 46 Ormus..procreates nothing note-worthy, Salt excepted. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 305 The sides of Homogeneal Surdes multiplyed procreateth sides of Homogeneal Surdes. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 41 The offspring of the sun, procreated..in the regions of the east.
Hence ˈprocreated, ˈprocreating ppl. adjs.
1552Huloet, Procreated, procreatus. 1653Manton Exp. James i. 14 Wks. 1871 IV. 93 The true procreating cause of sin is in every man's soul. 1857–69Heavysege Saul (ed. 3) 135 That procreated race, Which holds 'twixt us and brutes the place. 1864R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 10 An urgent demand for labour will increase the procreated supply. |