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procreative, a.|ˈprəʊkriːeɪtɪv|
[f. L. type *prōcreātīv-us: see procreate ppl. a. and -ive. So OF. procreative (14th c. in Godef.).]
Pertaining to procreation; having the power or function of producing offspring. Also fig.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xxiv. xxxix. (1678) 568 The..procreative faculty ceaseth in some sooner, in some later. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. xii. 406 Having made one lye he is fain to make more to maintain it... Not one amongst them shall be barren, but miraculously procreative to beget others. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 252 note, The procreative soil will expand the ripening germs, and in the end produce a plenteous harvest. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 153 The irregular gratification of the procreative instinct.
Hence ˈprocreativeness.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. iii. §32 The Procreativeness of those Nations presently stinted and abated. 1667Decay Chr. Piety ix. ⁋14 To have reconcil'd the procreativeness of corporeal, with the duration of incorporeal substances. |