单词 | progeniture |
释义 | progenituren. 1. The begetting of offspring, procreation; (occasionally) ancestry, lineage. Also in extended use: origination, inception. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] i-streonc893 strainc950 akennessOE spreadingOE upspringc1000 akenningOE akennednessOE strainc1175 streningc1230 begetc1330 begettingc1330 engendrurec1350 generationa1382 gettinga1382 genderingc1384 multiplicationa1387 increase1390 prolificationa1393 procreationc1395 engenderinga1400 gendrure?a1400 engendure?a1425 progeniturec1429 propagation?1440 teemingc1450 breeda1500 geniturea1500 engenderment1507 progeneration1548 fathering1549 engender1556 race1561 multiplying1599 pullulation1641 progermination1648 reproduction1713 face-making1785 baby-making1827 begettal1864 fertility1866 c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2879 O son hadde sho fairest be flesshely progeniture [L. progenituram]. 1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) xviii. 131 Grysilde the Firste..Was issued of meane and lowe progeniture. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. K2v The wonders of my great Grand father Harueys progeniture were these. 1791 R. Sadler Wanley Penson II. v. 73 The good bishop indulges a laugh at the modern picture of his ancient progeniture. 1831 T. Hope Ess. Origin Man II. 21 All organic and living individuals after a time acquire the power of propagating their species by a new progeniture. 1842 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. iii. 220 All ancient testimonies respecting the Cerinthians ascribe to them also this notion of the purely celestial progeniture of the Christ. 1888 Littell's Living Age 10 Mar. 630/2 Can we give any meaning to the notion of direct psychical progeniture from father to son? 1940 Ethics 50 463 In this description of knowledge by Plato we see the progeniture of triadic meaning-analysis from the medieval distinction of modes to the semiotic-semantic-pragmatic division of Charles Morris. 1995 Scotsman (Nexis) 17 Jan. 14 The progeniture of the family..goes back much further, appearing in Scottish records in 1214. 2. Offspring, progeny. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring seedOE offspringOE begottena1325 birtha1325 issuea1325 burgeoninga1340 fruit of the loinsa1340 young onec1384 increasement1389 geta1400 gendera1425 procreation1461 progeniturec1487 engendera1500 propagation1536 feture1537 increase1552 breed1574 spawn1590 bowela1593 teeming1599 pullulation1641 prolifications1646 educt1677 produce1823 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 181 And who-so-euer afforced to procure a peace bittwex theym, he ordeyned a decree firmely ratified by all the common assent of his land, that he shuld be banyshed the roialme for euermore, whether he were of his progenyture or Cadusian borne [L. siue progenies sua, seu cadusius esset]. 1633 J. Monlas Quadrivium Sionis 120 That which is naturally begotten of another, must bee esteemed his true progeniture. 1842 A. de Vere Song of Faith iii. 24 A Virgin..undowered In aught, save her renowned progeniture. 1893 Pall Mall Mag. 1 38 A state of highly-strung nerves in our progeniture that may some day land them in continuous invalidism. 1910 F. H. O'Donnell Hist. Irish Parl. Party II. xxiii. 181 Mr. Gladstone..demanded the support of all parties for a measure which had no ancestry and which was to have no progeniture. 1934 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 2 Nov. 1/5 He was the last of the third generation of..the French branch of the progeniture of that grizzled old Jewish money-changer. 1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 20 Sept. b3 Those anglophones who had sent their children to French elementary schools and in the doing lost their progeniture's right to an English education in Quebec. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1429 |
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