inbreedv.
/ɪnˈbriːd/ 1. transitive. To breed, engender, or produce within.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > give rise to
makeOE
breedc1200
wakea1325
wakenc1330
engendera1393
gendera1398
raisea1400
begetc1443
reara1513
ingener1513
ingenerate1528
to stir upc1530
yield1576
to pull ona1586
to brood up1586
to set afloat (on float)1586
spawn1594
innate1602
initiate1604
inbreed1605
irritate1612
to give rise to1630
to let in1655
to gig (out)1659
to set up1851
gin1887
1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. 83 These Iesuites..indevour..to imbrede that fiercenesse and obstinacie in their chollers.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 To inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu, and publick civility.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 193 The first and last Heresie that ever troubled this Island was inbred by Pelagius.
1849 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 188 Perplexing these that sleep, and in their folly Imbreeding doubt and sceptic melancholy.
1879 M. D. Conway Demonol. II. iv. xxiv. 293 The Church..not wishing to imbreed in the popular mind a sceptical habit.
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society > education > upbringing > [verb (transitive)] > in or on something
fosterc1386
inbreed1610
suckle1654
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 39 Inbread and nuzeled in warlick exercises or robberies rather.
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