engender

Definition

To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

Etymology

From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.

Example Sentences

• "O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee."
• "Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…]."
• "ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered."