Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of engender, engenderer.
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- transitive verb See
engender .
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
engender .
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Examples
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Voice, Speed, Scent, and Proportion you like, put them together to ingender in _January_, _February_, or _March_, as the properest Months for Hounds, Bitches, and Bratches to be Limed in; because of not _losing time_ to enter them.
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But they fearing that their long abode in the gardein might ingender some displeasure, retourned into the Castell, with purpose in time to content their desires, so sone as opportunitie serued.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In the meane time T. Latinius one of the plebeian sorte, perceyuing that the Romaynes went about to institute great pastimes, conceiued a dreame, wherein hee sawe Iuppiter to speake vnto him, and said that he liked not the towardnes of those games, and in case the same were not celebrated, with great royaltie and magnificens, they would ingender perill to the citie, which dreame he declared to the Consuls.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Breast or Lungs; but as it is opening and cleansing, so the immoderate use thereof is dangerous; for it will rot the Teeth, and taint the Breath, ingender Jaundies and Consumptions; and Physicians verily believe, that the major part of those who die of the
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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Griphons, whom in forme of birds, the other world doth ingender; the
The Golden Asse 1566
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Round - jhoulder'd, bunch - back 'd, ingender, alfovatural, that is born\bofs'd; crook-back' d C - Kabmfgu - with us.
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30 Because the grayne of il seede hath bene sowen in the hart of Adam from the beginning: and how much impietie hath it ingendered vntil now, and doth ingender vntil the floore come?
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30 Because the grayne of il seede hath bene sowen in the hart of Adam from the beginning: and how much impietie hath it ingendered vntil now, and doth ingender vntil the floore come?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Therefore looke what force the Sun at noone hath in London the 29 of October, the same force of heat it hath, to them that dwell vnder the pole, the space almost of two moneths, during the time of the Summer solstitium, and that without intermingling of any colde night; so that if the heat of the Sunne at noone could be well measured in London (which is very hard to do because of the long nights which ingender great moisture and cold) then would manifestly appeare by expresse numbers the maner of the heat vnder the poles, which certainly must needs be to the inhabitants very commodious and profitable, if it incline not to ouermuch heat, and if moisture do not want.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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2342: From my cold heart let Heauen ingender haile,
fbharjo commented on the word ingender
also engender
February 9, 2009