Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Impregnating; making pregnant. In the quotation, used erroneously for impregnate, a.
- noun That which impregnates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
- noun rare That which impregnates.
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- adjective obsolete Not
pregnant ;unfertilized orinfertile .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Okay, I suppose there's a remote possibility she was actually impregnanted with a turkey baster, but in pretty much any circumstances, a 9 year old who's had intercourse with someone old enough to impregnant her was RAPED.
Okay delagar 2009
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They didn't know Jesus needed male chromosomes or that they existed, a Holy Spirit could impregnant a woman just as any man.
Christology and the Brain of Jesus James F. McGrath 2008
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How can we be so sure God was able to impregnant Mary.
Window Into Fall ** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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To speak yet more narrowly, there was never any thing ugly or misshapen, but the chaos; wherein, notwithstanding, to speak strictly, there was no deformity, because no form; nor was it yet impregnant by the voice of God.
Religio Medici 2007
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But if the drink were mixed with the dry meat in the belly, it must be impregnant with its qualities, and not come forth so simple and untinged.
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But if the drink were mixed with the dry meat in the belly, it must be impregnant with its qualities, and not come forth so simple and untinged.
Symposiacs 2004
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To speak yet more narrowly, there was never any thing ugly or mis-shapen, but the Chaos; wherein, notwithstanding, (to speak strictly,) there was no deformity, because no form; nor was it yet impregnant by the voice of God.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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To speak yet more narrowly, there was never any thing ugly or mis-shapen, but the Chaos; wherein, notwithstanding, (to speak strictly,) there was no deformity, because no form; nor was it yet impregnant by the voice of GOD.
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[Greek: Ta athea egeneto, kai egeneto chaos,] -- and this chaos, the eternal will, by the spirit and the word, or express 'fiat', -- again acting as the impregnant, distinctive, and ordonnant power, -- enabled to become a world -- [Greek: kosmeisthai.]
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The rigidness of this law allowing the judge to make a call that allows a child to marry, at any age they can become pregnant or impregnant someone, and become an adult seems foolhardy.
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