impregn

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/ɪmˈpɹiːn/

verb

To impregnate; to make fruitful.

OriginMiddle English impregnen ← Old French enpreignier, enpreigner ← Medieval Latin impraegnō →
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Meanings

verbimpregn (third-person singular simple present impregns, present participle impregning, simple past and past participle impregned)

present singular third person impregns · participle present impregning · participle past impregned · past impregned

  1. archaicpoeticTo impregnate; to make fruitful.

    his perswasive words, impregn’d With Reason

    1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
    2 more examples

    Semele doth Bacchus bear / Impregned of Jove.

    1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul

    Th' unfruitful rock, itself impregn'd by thee,⁠ / In dark retirement forms the lucid stone.

    a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Medieval Latinimpraegnō
  2. Old Frenchenpreignier, enpreigner
  3. Middle Englishimpregnen“to make a woman pregnant, impregnate”
  4. Englishimpregn

First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English impregnen (“to make a woman pregnant, impregnate”), from Old French enpreignier, enpreigner (French imprégner), ultimately from Medieval Latin impraegnō. Doublet of impregnate.

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “impregn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impregn.

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