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procreant, a. (n.)|ˈprəʊkriːənt|
[ad. L. prōcreānt-em, pr. pple. of prōcre-āre: see next. So F. procréant, pres. pple. of procréer.]
1. That procreates or begets; producing young; generating; producing, as in procreant cause.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. iii. 18 b, The procreant and conseruant cause. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. cvii. 11 Sin is at the bottome of all mens miseries, as the procreant cause thereof. 1679[see conservant]. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xviii. 344 But the loss of liberty is not the whole of what the procreant bird suffers. 1849Clough Dipsychus ii. iii. 23 The procreant heat and fervour of our youth Escapes, in puff, in smoke.
2. Of, pertaining or subservient to procreation.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. vi. 8 No Iutty frieze, Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird Hath made his pendant Bed, and procreant Cradle. 1767G. White Selborne xii, This wonderful ‘procreant cradle’ [a harvest-mouse's nest]. 1817Wordsw. Vernal Ode iii, Her procreant vigils Nature keeps Amid the unfathomable deeps. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 200 The swarms of children nestled and cradled in every procreant chamber of this hive.
†B. as n. One who or that which procreates; a generator. Obs.
1604Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 28 Leaue Procreants alone, and shut the doore. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 16 God the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost, are Procreants and Conseruants of the world. 1641Milton Animadv. xiii. Wks. 1851 III. 235 Putrid creatures that receive a crawling life from those two most unlike procreants, the Sun and mudde. |