progenerate

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin progeneratus, past participle of progenerare (“to beget”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + generare (“to generate”).

Verb edit

progenerate (third-person singular simple present progenerates, present participle progenerating, simple past and past participle progenerated)

(transitive) To beget; to generate; to produce.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
  Nothing more than that which we can handle , cast down , bury ; and surely not he who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race , than during the few years it was permitted us to converse with him.

References edit

“progenerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.