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engender

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engender \En*gen"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engendered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Engendering .] [F. engender, L. ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate , and cf. Ingenerate .] To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.] To cause to exist; to bring ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). (14th–19th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). (from 14th c.) 3 (context transitive English) ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. call forth [syn: breed , spawn ] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget , get , father , mother , sire , generate , bring forth ]

Usage examples of engender.

The fear that nicotine addiction engenders can cause otherwise pleasant and compassionate people to act like barbarians.

Balance of Solomon, the Alkahest, to serve the Spouses, when they are laid on the nuptial bed, there to engender their embryo, producing for the human race immense treasures, that will last as long as the world endures.

The ways in which my many non-scientist friends and colleagues often regard me as a laboratory scientist -with incomprehension and awe, tinged, I sometimes feel, with faint patronage - engendered in me the idea of a sort of apologia for laboratory life.

All taken as a totality, since that Authentic All is not a thing patched up out of external parts, but is authentically an all because its parts are engendered by itself.

Although whether these were the result of bisexual, asexual, or some other engendering process, they did not find out.

The world-wide Centenary celebrations crowning these enterprises were undertaken in such perilous circumstances and carried out despite the formidable obstacles engendered through prolongation of hostilities.

This unnatural delay engendered many thoughts, but I could not fix exactly on the reason of it.

Because the Divinity, 1, engenders 2, and in created things 2 engenders 1.

Both are engendered, in the sense that they have had a beginning, but unengendered in that this beginning is not in Time: they have a derived being but by an eternal derivation: they are not, like the Kosmos, always in process but, in the character of the Supernal, have their Being permanently.

Notice that the destruction of the elements passing over is not complete--if it were we would have a Principle of Being wrecked in Non-being--nor does an engendered thing pass from utter non-being into Being: what happens is that a new form takes the place of an old.

Eternal Being, The One illimitableness, however, not possessing native existence There but engendered by The One.

Consider how far the engendered stands from its origin and yet, what a marvel!

But besides this purest Soul, there must be also a Soul of the All: at once there is another Love--the eye with which this second Soul looks upwards--like the supernal Eros engendered by force of desire.

Soul, while its phases differ, must, in all of them, remain a contemplation and what seems to be an act done under contemplation must be in reality that weakened contemplation of which we have spoken: the engendered must respect the Kind, but in weaker form, dwindled in the descent.

Thus the Being that has engendered the Intellectual-Principle must be more simplex than the Intellectual-Principle.