Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To beget; propagate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To beget; to generate; to produce.

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Latin progeneratus, past participle of progenerare to beget; pro forth, forward + generare to generate.

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