单词 | progenerate |
释义 | † progenerateadj.1 Obsolete. rare. Used as past participle: propagated, begotten. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > begotten akennedeOE bikenneda1250 gottena1382 begottenc1384 engenderedc1425 bredc1440 procreate1449 propagate1543 procreated1552 progenerate1610 seminal1646 begot1691 proliferating1866 parented1904 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. ii. 300 Meanes for one thing to bee progenerate of another. a1879 C. Wells Dramatic Scene in W. R. Nicoll Lit. Anecd. of Nineteenth Cent. (1895) 310 Hence 'tis a principle progenerate Of the eternal wisdom that the will..Is of a free unbiassed quality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). progenerateadj.2 Advanced in development or type (opposed to degenerate).Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 56 Our ‘degenerates’ may sometimes be in truth progenerate, and their perturbation may mark an evolution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). progeneratev. transitive. To beget; to give birth to; (in extended use) to originate, give rise to. Also occasionally intransitive: to reproduce. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] kenc825 begeteOE strenec893 raisec1175 breeda1250 kenec1275 felefolda1300 engendera1325 tiddera1325 multiplyc1350 genderc1384 producea1513 procreatea1525 propagate1535 generate1552 product1577 kind1596 traduce1599 pullulate1602 traduct1604 progenerate1611 store1611 spawna1616 spawna1617 reproduce1650 propage1695 to make a baby1911 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Progenier, to progenerate..young ones. 1647 Scots-mans Remonstr. 2 Our advancing towards England in that posture, was neither with an intent to enter the Kingdome as Enemies, nor any wayes seeking to progenerate a Warre between the two Nations. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations xxxviii. 187 For they [sc. males] do all by an emission of something out of them..progenerate, and preserve their species. 1705 J. C. tr. P. Jurieu Crit. Hist. Doctr. & Worships Church I. i. xxviii. 273 The Stagg and the Horse begin to progenerate much about the same age. 1751 B. Holloway Originals Physical & Theol. II. 103 Wou'd..cease to produce, or progenerate any Thing at all. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. vi. 102 He who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race. 1873 Times 15 Jan. 10/4 The abundance of gnats, hornets, and other insects progenerated in the swamps and morasses along the river side. 1905 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 26 440 Whether she was the daughter of Hekate.., or whether she was the offspring of a sea-monster, or lastly was not progenerated of either, she deserves to be recorded as a heroine of unusual celebrity. 1981 Sci. Amer. Apr. 6/1 That carefully defined quarter of psychology known as behavior analysis, which was progenerated by the famous Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner almost 50 years ago. 2000 Philos. Sci. 67 Suppl. 361 The capacity to reproduce is the capacity to progenerate entities with the capacity to acquire the capacity to reproduce. Derivatives proˈgenerated adj. rare ΚΠ 1770 T. Pownall Sepulchral Monument in Archaeologia (1773) 2 250 They were all progenerated colonies from a Scythian or Tartar race. 1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xvi. 175 Freemasonry..begun its origin at a much more antiquated period of the universe even before progenerated man had heard the audible voice of the grand architect of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11610adj.21903v.1611 |
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