单词 | aggeneration |
释义 | aggenerationn. Now rare. 1. The action or process of generating or producing in addition; (also) growth or regeneration by grafting; the result of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > in addition, threefold, or excessive aggeneration1627 superfetation1641 trigony1660 hypergenesis1855 1627 T. Jackson Treat. Catholike Faith 28 There haue beene..additions vnto this Church without substraction; continuall adgeneration without corruption. 1672 R. Boyle Ess. Origine & Virtues Gems 147 These Aggenerations (if I may so call them) of Medicinal and other Stones are sometimes found in places, where there are no petrifying Springs. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. I Aggeneration, the state of growing to another body. 1835 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer 16 May 158/2 Although apples do well when put into the top of large trees, pears treated in this manner..will never answer, because they will not unite firmly; hence their aggeneration cannot be effected. 1915 Classical Weekly 8 207/1 Only a classicist could use so familiarly such words as non-viable, dichotomize, deliquescent, stiripiculture, biometry, aggeneration, unigeniture, dysgenic and entelechy. 2. spec. The process of racial augmentation or addition by reproduction. rare (now disused). ΚΠ 1847 Satirist 19 Sept. 36/2 Why do not these bipeds..drive from aggeneration the faulty individuals obnoxious to the efforts of those ‘lovers of the chase’ yclept Bum-bailiffs! 1912 H. Ellis Task of Social Hygiene (1913) 24 The higher task is now ours of the regeneration of the race, or, if we wish to express that betterment less questionably, the aggeneration of the race. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1627 |
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