Definizione monolingua

engender

engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th-19th c.]
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V:

     O Error soone conceyud, / Thou neuer comst vnto a happy byrth, / But kilst the Mother that engendred thee.

2. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]
   • 1891, Henry James, ""James Russell Lowell"", Essays in London and Elsewhere, p. 60:

     Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him [...].

3. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]
   • 1928, ""New Plays in Manhattan"", Time, 8 Oct 1928:

     Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "" Better Be Good to Me "" and "" I Must Love You, "" but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.

   • 2009, Jonathan Glancey, ""The art of industry"", The Guardian, 21 Dec 09:

     Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. Its also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. [15th-19th c.]
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:

     But that the bodies of the reprobate, who make the kingdom of Satan, shall also be glorious or spiritual bodies, or that they shall be as the angels of God, neither eating, drinking, nor engendering [...], there is no place of Scripture to prove it [...].

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II:

     I fled, but he pursud (though more, it seems, / Inflamd with lust then rage) and swifter far, / Me overtook his mother all dismaid, / And in embraces forcible and foule / Ingendring with me, of that rape begot / These yelling Monsters [...].

Definizione dizionario engender

	generare
	bring into existence, cause

	concepire
	bring into existence, cause

	originare
	bring into existence, cause

	procreare
	To become pregnant.

causare

ingenerare

produrre

Altri significati:

(obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. [15th-19th c.]

(obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th-19th c.]

(critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. [from 20th c.]

(transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]

To bring into existence.

(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]