| 单词 | procreant cause |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprocreant cause 1. That procreates, that begets offspring; generative; producing, as in † procreant cause (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] bearinglOE fruitfula1300 plenteousc1325 fructuousa1382 birthful?c1475 fertile1481 broodya1522 yielding1556 foisonous1570 procreant1588 generative1597 yieldy1598 childing1600 seedful1605 thankful1610 foisonable1613 prolifical1615 fecundous1630 feracious1637 prolific1653 fetiferous1654 floriferous1656 productive1672 fœtant1678 spawning1682 uberousa1706 populous?1789 productible1830 grateful1832 resultful1833 genetic1838 tumid1840 polyphorous1858 generant1875 proliferent1920 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] bearingOE genderinga1398 multiplyinga1400 fecundc1420 broodya1522 fruitful1526 breeding1552 procreant1588 procreative1598 increasing1600 broodious1602 prolifical1608 conceptiousa1616 plenteousa1616 conceptive1630 feracious1637 propagatory1647 prolific1650 proliferous1654 propagative1654 progenial1664 teemful1755 progenitive1769 breedy1824 proligerous1836 progenital1837 philoprogenitive1857 eugenesic1864 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. iii. f. 18v The procreant and conseruant cause. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms cvii. 11 Sin is at the bottome of all mens miseries, as the procreant cause thereof. 1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. xvii. 303 The Papacy was either the procreant or conservant cause, or both procreant and conservant of all the greater ecclesiastical controversies in the Christian world. 1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. viii. 136/2 Being the Nature procreant of All, and none of All, it is not this or that. 1780 P. Leyal Lett. to Duke of Leinster iii. 40 The illustrious peer, whom your procreant genius has so repeatedly honoured with abuse. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xviii. 344 But the loss of liberty is not the whole of what the procreant bird suffers. a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iii, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 180 The procreant heat and fervour of our youth Escapes, in puff, and smoke. 1931 Times 9 July 16/3 Many new lessons had been learnt in that most procreant laboratory, the operation theatre. 1970 Jrnl. Parasitol. 56 1246/2 Sonenshine and Yunker..developed a technique of injecting radioactive isotopes into procreant females. 1990 W. M. Decker Lit. Vocation Henry Adams vi. 216 Adams..had already characterized the America of 1800 as bearing the marks of a procreant, popular idealism. < as lemmas |
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