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propagate

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these characteristics" travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium" transmit; "propagate sound or light through air" become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "to cause to multiply," from Latin propagatus , past participle of propagare "to set forward, extend, procreate" (see propagation ). Intransitive sense "reproduce one's kind" is from c.1600. Related: Propagated ; propagating .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propagate \Prop"a*gate\, v. i. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly. No need that thou Should'st propagate, already infinite. --Milton.

Usage examples of propagate.

At the very time when men were at last falteringly beginning to carry out his earlier precept, when the more socially-aware of them were propagating successfully a will for social discipline and worldplanning, he must bestir himself desparately to inspire the more spiritually-conscious with a new tenderness for individuality and for sincere personal awareness.

From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

Old World was drenched in blood to propagate the ideas which the French Revolution had proclaimed, the Presidency of Quito, walled in by its immense cordilleras and the ocean, and ruled by monkish ignorance and bigotry, knew as little of men and events as we now know of men and events in the moon.

Chillingworth and Dumond probably thought they could push your overbearing brothers-in-law to challenge you by propagating those ruinous lies.

The shock of psychic energy that annihilated the mind that had been Ethendor propagated back along the current perfusing it and out through the attached neural coupler into the brain of Eubeleus.

By means of her emissaries, she propagated a report that her nephew, Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, had escaped from the Tower when his elder brother was murdered, and that he still lay somewhere concealed: and finding this rumor, however improbable, to be greedily received by the people, she had been looking out for some young man proper to personate that unfortunate prince.

The gentry and nobility, who, without attachment to the court, without command in the army, attended in great numbers the English camp, greedily seized, and propagated, and gave authority to these sentiments: a retreat, very little honorable, which the earl of Holland, with a considerable detachment of the English forces, had made before a detachment of the Scottish, caused all these humors to blaze up at once: and the king, whose character was not sufficiently vigorous or decisive, and who was apt from facility to embrace hasty counsels, suddenly assented to a measure which was recommended by all about him, and which favored his natural propension towards the misguided subjects of his native kingdom.

He was still mildly high from a joint smoked early in the afternoon and so he imagined himself getting in there and untangling and replanting, propagating and creating something of unearthly beauty, a little Garden of Eden.

Now, as a new era dawns for the Church and her servants, she must make even greater efforts to propagate the gift of life everlasting, championing the Rights of the Unconceived through a Doctrine of Affirmative Fertility.

Honus Hasta revolted and founded the city of Castrum Mare in the 953rd year of Rome, Castra Sanguinarius was overrun with criminals, so that no man dared go abroad at night without an armed body-guard, nor was any one safe within his own home, and Honus Hasta, who became the first Emperor of the East, swore that there should be no criminals in Castrum Mare and he made laws so drastic that no thief or murderer lived to propagate his kind.

In his famous Seventeen-Article Constitution of 604, Prince Shotoku, in addition to calling for the reverence of Buddhism, sought also to propagate Confucian values among the Japanese.

The brain had not been removed, and quite a colony of Dermestes Beetles had propagated in the cavity.

Jacobites has persevered for ages to cast stones against his sepulchre, and to propagate the foolish tradition, that it was never watered by the rain of heaven, which equally descends on the righteous and the ungodly.

They were informed he had nothing further to desire, but that they would carry down the same good dispositions, and propagate them in their several counties, which they had shown in their proceedings during the session.

Whiggish libels sell best, so industrious are they to propagate scandal and falsehood.