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Definition of geniture in English: geniturenoun ˈdʒɛnɪtʃəˈjeniCHər archaic A person's birth or parentage. Example sentencesExamples - It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof.
- In this little tract, the ingenious Artist may meet with a concise method for calculating and judging a nativity; unto which I refer the desirous reader for further satisfaction in this geniture.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French geniture or Latin genitura, from the root of gignere 'beget'. Definition of geniture in US English: geniturenounˈjeniCHər archaic A person's birth or parentage. Example sentencesExamples - It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof.
- In this little tract, the ingenious Artist may meet with a concise method for calculating and judging a nativity; unto which I refer the desirous reader for further satisfaction in this geniture.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French geniture or Latin genitura, from the root of gignere ‘beget’. |