procreant

comparative more procreant · superlative most procreant

1. That procreates.
2. Of or pertaining to procreation; procreative.

   His pendent bed and procreant cradle

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]

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   It is the procreant and conservant cause, but no material of our Sanctification .

   1990, David D. Hall, The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, page 102

plural procreants

1. One who, or that which, procreates.

   Leave procreants alone, and ſhut the dore, / Coffe, or cry hem, if any body come, […]

   c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 70