procreate
To beget or conceive (offsprings).
Adjective
- Procreated, begotten.
- And furthermore, since many inconveniences have fallen, as well within this realm as in others, by reason of marrying within degrees of marriage prohibited by God's laws, that is to say, the son to marry the mother, or...
- Some of these Kings, dying without procreate Heires. - 1632, William Lithgow, The totall discourse of the rare adventures & painefull peregrinations of long nineteen yeares travayles from Scotland to the most famous...
Origin
The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1525; inherited from Middle English procreat(e) (“(construed as past participle) begotten, procreated”), borrowed from Latin prōcreātus, perfect passive participle of prōcreō (“to beget”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3); by surface analysis, pro- + create. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
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Noun
- The produce of money, interest.
- If the Paiment be half Yearly or Quarterly […] let the Log. of the Yearly Procreat be multiplied accordingly, by ¹⁄₃ or ¹⁄₂. - 1696, Samuel Jeake, Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed published, 578:
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Verb
- To beget or conceive (offsprings).
- To originate, create or produce.
- To reproduce.
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Of the mother: conceive enwomb inwomb mother womb Of the father: father sire