| 释义 |
† ˈgendering, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb gender; begetting, breeding. gendering again: regeneration.
1382Wyclif Matt. xix. 28 In regeneracioun, or gendrynge aȝein..ȝe shulen sitt on twelue setis. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiv. 144 Reson ich seih sothliche suwen alle bestes In etynge, in drynkyng in gendrynge of kynde. c1449Pecock Repr. i. vii. 34 We schulden be continent and mesurable in deedis of gendring. 1483Cath. Angl. 153/1 A Genderynge, genitura (A. coitus).
attrib.1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 189 Plinius..seiþ þat som men beeþ i-gete and i-bore wiþ gendrynge stones cleuynge togidres as it were al oon. 1880N. & Q. 6th Ser. I. 311/2 It [a frog supposed to be in a woman's stomach] al'us started croakin' every spring at generin' time. |