a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 1 (MED) Þe engendringe of þe child in þe modir wombe.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 327 (MED) Resoune..suen alle bestes In etynge, in drynkynge and in engendrynge of kynde.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin v. 81 The recorde of the engenderinge of the childe.

1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. L ij b The dyuersytye of braynes in divisyng, is lyke the sundrynes of beastes in engendryng.

1580 T. Twyne (title) Shorte and pithie Discourse concerning the engendering..of all Earthquakes.

1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. ii. 76 The Normans..with their promiscuous ingendring..were forced to vnburthen themselues on other countries.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. ii. 222 Not only the mere engendring of the Young, but the..Methods of providing for them, are all foreknown.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxviii. 384 But they never taught honour at the Grinders' School, where the system that prevailed was particularly strong in the engendering of hypocrisy.

1939 World Affairs June 75/2 The tragic events in other lands today, particularly in Europe, have had their repercussions in this country in the engendering of misunderstandings, hatred and hostilities among members of cultural and religious groups.

1965 Jrnl. Relig. 45 100/1 Sexual intercourse tends..toward the expression and strengthening of love and toward the engendering of children.

2010 G. Williams Knowl. Econ. iv. 106 The enhanced relevance of regional governance plays a role in the engendering of trust.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. l. 3402 Accord & discord of the foure elementis..The generaciouns [emended in ed. to generacioun] & the corupciouns Of erthli thynges, contrarie ech to other, Corrupcioun of oon engendryng to another.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 968 Y..behelde the ayerissh bestes, Cloudes mystes, and tempestes..And thengendrynge in hir kyndes.

1650 W. Davenant Pref. to Gondibert 56 The engendrings of vnripe age become abortiue, and deform'd.

1839 Colonization Herald Mar. 105 It is one of the foul, destructive engenderings of the dark, hellish system of slavery.

1934 Social Forces 12 418/1 Classified as prejudices or the engenderings of propaganda, these attitudes are often dismissed without further study.

1992 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Aug. 17 A celebration of..the engenderings of the science fiction genre.

?1552 W. Baldwin tr. ‘P. Esquillus’ Wonderfull Newes sig. C All the deuils put in theyr engendryng seede [L. genitale semen].

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 18 in Jewell House As to woorke an erection of those engendring parts.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 175 Though ingendring force from whence they came Be strong enough.

1646 J. Benbrigge Vsvra Accommodata Introd. 3 Anatomizing the engendring wombe of his sinfulnesse against God.

1722 R. Blackmore Redemption i. 37 The Son of God, whose vision unconfin'd View'd all th' engendring instincts of the mind.

1765 London Chron. 16 Nov. 482/2 They may glut themselves with the filthy spawn and amphibious brood, spontaneously issuing from his engendering bowels.

1853 E. von Schonberg Trav. in India & Kashmir I. vii. 118 This temple is dedicated to the sun, as the great engendering power to which the fertility of the earth is due.

1909 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 15 121 Misery..is therefore destroyed by removing the engendering causes.

1999 R. Poirier Trying It out in Amer. xvii. 284 His semen..does not jet forth into an engendering womb or even into someone else's hand.

1620 C. Newstead Apol. Women 3 Now each man with Tiresias, is metamorphosed into a woman: pleasures and delights, are the ingendring Serpents, that haue womanized their affections.

a1634 G. Chapman Revenge for Honour (1654) i. 6 They keep more noise then a large pool ful of ingendring frogs.

1699 M. Pix False Friend i. 11 Ingendring Toads With all their bloatted Brood crawling o're 'em!

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 48 A bunch of engendering adders.

1945 L. R. Broster Endocrine Man ii. 29 We learn from Ovid..that Tiresias in his youth interfered with two engendering snakes, and was in consequence turned into a girl.