progenerate

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verb

To beget; to generate; to produce.

OriginLatin progeneratus →
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Meanings

verbprogenerate (third-person singular simple present progenerates, present participle progenerating, simple past and past participle progenerated)

present singular third person progenerates · participle present progenerating · participle past progenerated · past progenerated

  1. transitiveTo beget; to generate; to produce.

    Nothing more than that which we can handle , cast down , bury ; and surely not he who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race , than during the few years it was permitted us to converse with him.

    1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinprogeneratus
  2. Englishprogenerate

From Latin progeneratus, past participle of progenerare (“to beget”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + generare (“to generate”).

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Chicago

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