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progeny|ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ|
Also 4 -i, 4–5 -ye, 4–7 -ie, 6 proginie.
[ME. a. obs. F. progenie (13th c. in Godef.), ad. L. prōgeniē-s descent, family, offspring, f. prōgign-ĕre to beget.]
1. a. The offspring (of a father or mother, or of both); issue, children collectively; more widely, descendants. (Rarely with indef. art.)
a1300Cursor M. 1361 Til him and til his progeni Wit pite sal he sceu his merci. a1325in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 145 Þo Eue wist sche schuld dye, Sche cleped forþ hir progenie. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋250 He moste nedes dye..and al his progenye in this world. 1515Barclay Egloges (1570) C vj b/1 In it remayneth the worthy gouernour, A stocke and fountayne of noble progeny. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cv. ii, His servantes you, O Abrahams progeny. 1604Bk. Com. Prayer, Pr. for R. Family, All the King and Queenes Royall progenie. a1618Raleigh Mahomet (1637) 26 The Mores are the progeny of such Arabians as after their Conquests seated themself in that part of Affrica. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. i. (1840) 13 Some think..that Noah's sons..were saved in the ark..merely for being the posterity or progeny of a righteous father. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun xxvi, From this union sprang a vigorous progeny.
b. Of lower animals, and plants.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 250 When she has calv'd, then set the Dam aside; And for the tender Progeny provide. 1843J. A. Smith Product. Farming (ed. 2) 33 A tree puts forth annually a new progeny of buds, and becomes clothed with a beautiful foliage of lungs..for the respiration of the rising brood. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 169 In gathering seeds, choice should be made from the finest trees, as they are more likely to produce a healthy and vigorous progeny than those which are stinted in their growth.
c. fig. Spiritual or intellectual descendants, successors, followers, disciples.
1451J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (E.E.T.S.) 78 All þe priouris and souereynes of þe ordre wer sent aftir to be at þe byryng of her maystir. Whan þei wer gadered to-gidir and anoumbered þe summe of his progenie cam on-to too þousand and too hundred. Ibid. 88 His desire was þat his progenie schuld lyue in honest pouerte. 1616A. Champney Voc. Bps. 221 So are likewise the Lutherans, and all their progeny. 1768Johnson Shaks. Pref., Wks. IX. 242 His characters..are the genuine progeny of common humanity. 1855Brewster Newton I. xiii. 347 The intellectual progeny whom he [Newton] educated and reared.
d. More vaguely, expressing relation or character: cf. child n. 13.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 90 b, Certaynly they be y⊇ housholde of Sathan & progeny of pryde. 1667Milton P.L. v. 600 Hear all ye Angels, Progenie of Light, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers.
2. fig. That which originates from or is produced by something (material or immaterial); issue, product, outcome, result.
1390Gower Conf. II. 290 Of Avarices progenie What vice suieth after this. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 96 ⁋8 False⁓hood was the progeny of Folly. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 253 Art is the parent, not the progeny of Science. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlviii. (1856) 446 In front of it we found a progeny of bergs, crowded together so close that we could not count them. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 90 Like earth's myriad hues, spring's progeny, rais'd to the breezes. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. ii. 55 Are not these more rapid vibrations the progeny of the slower?
†3. = generation 5. Obs. rare. (Chiefly a literalism of translation, repr. L. prōgeniēs.)
a1325Prose Psalter xlviii[i]. 20 Þe wicked shal entren unto þe progenie [uel, oþer, kynde; Vulg. in progenies], of his faders, and he shal se no liȝt wyþ-outen ende. 1382Wyclif Exod. xxxiv. 7 Into the thridde and the ferthe progenye. a1500Chester Pl. vi. 90 His name alwaie halowed be..from progeny to progenye.
†4. A race, stock, or line descended from a common ancestor; a family, clan, tribe, or kindred.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. viii. 5 Lest he speke euele of thi progenye [Vulg. de progenie tua, 1388 of thi kynrede]. 1390Gower Conf. III. 22 Which al the hole progenie Of lusti folk hath undertake To feede. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 127 The progenye of theyme descendede from Agar, seruaunte and moder of Ismael. 1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 23 The Marshes and all the progeny of the Northumbers, that is, of that people which inhabiteth the north side of the flud Humber. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. i. 70 Except remission be given with consent of the progenie and friends of him quha is vnjustlie slane. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres ii. 58 Lluelline, the last Prince of the British Progeny, being slaine. 1697Dryden æneid vi. 1074 Now fix your sight, and stand intent, to see Your Roman race, and Julian progeny.
†5. Lineage, parentage; descent, genealogy. Obs.
1382Wyclif Gen. xliii. 7 The man askide vs bi ordre oure progenye, if the fader lyued, if we hadden a brother. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxii. 85 Andouera, a woman of great birth, how be it myn auctor..declarith not hir progeny. 1548Cranmer Catech. 97 Let euery man be content with his proginie, office, callyng, state and degree. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 61 All French and France exclaimes on thee, Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 595 This Tzephaniah, For his Progeny, is described to be the son of Chushi, the son of Gedaliah. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 299 The care of about forty families, of the same progeny as the Turks.
6. attrib. and Comb., as progeny test, an assessment of the genetic value of an individual made by examining its progeny; so progeny-test v. trans., to assess in this way; progeny-tested ppl. a., progeny-testing vbl. n.
1918Babcock & Clausen Genetics in Relation to Agric. xv. 293 We find that the progeny test of individual plants was first used by Le Couteur and Shirreff. But it was Louis de Vilmorin who first gave special attention to the value of the progeny test (1856). 1932[see performance test]. 1953Srb & Owen Gen. Genetics xxiii. 501 The wisdom of using sires proved good by progeny tests and by careful observations on relatives has become evident to almost all breeders. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 101/2 A.I. organizations are in a favoured position, because they deal with large numbers, and can progeny-test many bulls. 1971Ibid. 23 Feb. 13/3 The Milk Marketing Board's Warren Farm progeny tests.. could hardly be called a tremendous success. 1972Country Life 6 Jan. 53/1 Extensive progeny testing of A1 bulls is carried out... By the use of egg transfer it should be possible to produce large numbers of calves from potential bull-breeding females and to progeny test them.
1944Jrnl. Agric. Res. LXIX. 471 Use of progeny-tested dairy sires would be a little more likely to increase the rate of improvement. 1974Country Life 12 Dec. 1853/1 This not only offers the advantage of the progeny-tested sire as compared with the crossing bull, which is what the farmer has to use at present, but a shorter and more concentrated calving season for the stockman.
1933Amer. Naturalist LXVII. 502 Progeny testing in poultry breeding can be used in evaluating the breeding potentiality of either sire or dam. 1970Progeny testing [see performance testing]. 1977Jrnl. Agric. Sci. LXXXVIII. 129/1 We can calculate the expected response to selection for various types of progeny... We may also be able to choose between the use of different types of family or between, say, family selection and a progeny-testing programme. |