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Engendered

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.]

  1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

  2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.

    Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth.
    --Southey.

    Syn: To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.

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engendered

vb. (en-past of: engender)

Usage examples of "engendered".

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.

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.

If they treat God as they do the Intellectual-Principle--as later, engendered and deriving intellection from without--soul and intellect and God may prove to have no existence: this would follow if a potentiality could not come to existence, or does not become actual, unless the corresponding actuality exists.

We have now to add that, since things engendered tend downwards and not upwards and, especially, move towards multiplicity, the first principle of all must be less a manifold than any.

If the Intellectual-Principle were the engendering Source, then the engendered secondary, while less perfect than the Intellectual-Principle, would be close to it and similar to it: but since the engendering Source is above the Intellectual-Principle, the secondary can only be that principle.

Intellectual-Principle we must make clear whether the Intellectual-Principle engendered the wisdom: if we learn that it did, we ask whence: if from itself, then inevitably, it is itself Wisdom.

With This he himself becomes identical, with that radiance whose Act is to engender Intellectual-Principle, not losing in that engendering but for ever unchanged, the engendered coming to be simply because that Supreme exists.

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

These were, I shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and the consequent thirst engendered in the operators.