English Dictionary

engender

/ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/

verb

(obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). / (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

The controversial decision engendered a lot of debate among the members.

意味（1）

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

O Error ſoone conceyu’d,

Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth,

O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.

意味（2）

(transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

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

意味（3）

(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there,

And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear,

Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.

意味（5）

(obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.

But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]