prægnant

A form of pregnant — Carrying developing offspring within the body.

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Meanings

adjectiveprægnant (comparative more prægnant, superlative most prægnant)

comparative more prægnant · superlative most prægnant

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pregnant.

    The Mind of God as it is Eternally prægnant with them,ſo it Eternally Views and contemplates them, and all things in them,but does not make them.

    1701, John Norris, An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world, page 235
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    That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it-self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And 'twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.

    1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC
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