单词 | procreator |
释义 | procreatorn. A person who or thing which procreates; a parent; a creator. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > procreator, parent, or origin motherOE stallionc1305 childbearera1382 getterc1390 begetter1440 procreator1548 propagator1585 procreatrix1593 breeder1594 procreatress1597 pregnatress1651 multiplier1660 parent1670 propagatrix1803 baby-maker1968 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciiiv He is vnkynd and vnnaturall, that will not cherishe hys natural parentes and procreators. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 90v They..neuer mention our sinnes, which are his [sc. plague's] chiefe procreatours. 1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose iii. 381 A Tyrant is a destroyer, not a Procreator of people. 1715 R. Steele Spectator 4 July 259 Feelings [for children]..have made me an implacable Enemy to these savage Procreators. 1834 Times 22 Oct. 2/4 The learned procreator of the Poor Bill is now as much indebted to our supposed hostility as his offspring was last summer. 1870 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 8 p. cxxxviii Among the Assyrians, the supreme god, Bel, was styled ‘the procreator’. 1934 Frederick (Maryland) Post 21 July 3/4 The finest horse ever bred in France, the immortal Sardanapale, a running wonder and a phenomenal procreator. 1991 Oxf. Jrnl. Legal Stud. 11 341 Almost no ancient writers adduced an inherent moral obligation of procreator to child. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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