# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Genitor; Genitrix ## Primogenitor; Primogenitrix ## Procreant; Procreator; Progenitor; Progenitrix Genitor: • genitor (n.): a male parent, a father; (anthropology): a person’s biological as opposed to legal father. [from Latin gignere, ‘create’ + -tor, masculine suffix; lit. physical or genetic father]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: The word “genitor” is particularly apt, on occasion, to be able to refer dispassionately to being a male biological parent or to denote such genetic paternity without the affectuous connotations (as in ‘paternal interest’ or ‘fatherly support’, ‘protective impulse’, ‘providore’, ‘solicitous’, and so on) which the more common phrase “my father” popularly expresses. Similarly, the term “my genitor” is also very useful, on occasion, to refer dispassionately to one’s male genetic parent or to denote such biological paternity without the affectional connotations (as in “blood is thicker than water” or “the bonds of kinship” or “the ties that bind”) which the more common phrase “my father” popularly expresses. As is the case with the word genetrix. Genitrix: • genetrix (n.): a female parent, a mother; genetrice; (anthropology): a person’s biological as opposed to legal mother.[from Latin generare, ‘beget’ + -trix, feminine suffix; lit. physical or genetic mother]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: The word “genetrix” is very useful, on occasion, to be able to refer dispassionately to being a female biological parent or to denote such genetic maternity without the affectuous connotations (as in ‘maternal feelings’ or ‘motherly instinct’, ‘nurturant’, ‘nourishing’, ‘comfortive’ and so forth) which the more common word mother popularly expresses. Similarly, the term “my genetrix” is also very useful, on occasion, to refer dispassionately to one’s female genetic parent or to denote such biological maternity without the affectional connotations (as in “blood is thicker than water” or “the bonds of kinship” or “the ties that bind”) which the more common phrase “my mother” popularly expresses. • genetrix (n.): a female progenitor. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • genetrix (n.; pl. genetrices): mother; [e.g.]: “A genetrix of aldermen and beadles”. (Francis Berry). [etymology; Latin, from the stem of gignere, ‘to beget’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • genetrix (n.): mother; female ancestor. ~ (The Phrontistery Dictionary). • genetrix (n.; pl. genitrixes or genitrices): the biological mother of a child; (synonyms): birthmother; (coordinate terms): genitor; (related terms): progenitrix; (alternative forms): • genetrix.[etymology; from Latin genitrix; feminine; genitive genitrīcis, masculine genitor; third declension]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). • genitor (n.; pl. genitors): 1. the biological father of a child; 2. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring; 3. a generator; an originator; 4. (obsolete, in the plural): the genitals; (synonyms): birthfather; (coordinate terms): genetrix or genitrix, ‘female genitor’; (related terms): progenitor; (alternative forms): genetore. [etymology; from Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, masculine; genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx; third declension]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). • genitor (n.): one who procreates; a sire; a progenitor; (plural): the genitals.~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Primogenitor: primogenitor (n.): 1. a forefather; ancestor; 2. an earliest parent or ancestor, as of a race. [C17: alteration of progenitor after primogeniture]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). Primogenitrix: primogenitrix (n.): a primogenitor who is female. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). Procreant: procreant (adj.): procreating; producing young; related to or connected with reproduction; (n.): one who or that which procreates or generates. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Progenitor: • progenitor (n.): 1. a person from whom another person, a family, or a race is descended; 2. an ancestor; a parent; a procreator[†]. [from Latin progignere, ‘beget’ + -or, suffix forming agent nouns); lit. ‘begetter’ or ‘ancestor’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: The term “my progenitors” is quite apt, on occasion, to refer dispassionately to one’s biological parents or to denote such genetic parentage without the affectional connotations (as in ‘blood is thicker than water’ or ‘the bonds of kinship’ or ‘the ties that bind’) which the more common phrase “my parents” popularly expresses. Similarly, the word “progenitor” (also “progenitrix”) is also quite apt, on occasion, when referring dispassionately to being a biological parent or to denote such genetic parentage without the affectuous connotations (as in ‘parental love’ or ‘maternalistic’ or ‘paternalistic’, or ‘protective’ and/or ‘provisionary’, or ‘supportive’ and/or ‘indulgent’, and so on) which the more common word “parent” popularly expresses. As is the case with the word procreator (more on this further below). • progenitor (n.): an ancestor in the direct line; a forefather; a parent; [e.g.]: “If children pre-decease progenitors, | We are their offspring, and they none of ours”. (William Shakespeare, “Lucrece”, 1. 1756); “Ah! whither shall we go? | Down to the grave, down to those happy shades below, | Where all our brave progenitors are blest | With endless triumph and eternal rest”. (John Pomfret, “A Prospect of Death”; 1704); “By the term fresh stock I mean a non-related plant the progenitors of which have been raised during some generations in another garden”. (Charles Darwin, “Cross and Self Fertilisation”, p. 257). [early modern English progenitour, from Old French progeniteur = Spanish, Portugese progenitor = Italian progenitore, from Latin progenitor, ‘the founder of a family’, ‘an ancestor’, from progignere, pp. progenitus, ‘beget’, ‘bring forth’, from pro, ‘forth’, + gignere, ‘beget’, ‘produce’; see genitor]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenitrix (n.): same as progenitress (viz.: a female progenitor, a foremother; an ancestress). [from progeni-tor + -trix, suffix forming nouns indicating a feminine agent, corresponding to nouns ending in -tor, e.g. aviatrix; executrix, inheritrix, testatrix, administratrix, editrix, dominatrix]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenitress (n.): a female progenitor or parent; an ancestress; [e.g.]: “Yet she was a worthy progenitress of a long line of most charming women novelists”. (The Century, XXVI. 291). [from progenitor + -ess]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenitor (n.): 1. a direct ancestor; (synonyms): ancestor, forebear, forefather, progenitor; these nouns denote a person from whom one is descended; [e.g.]: “A chart showing the genealogy of her ancestors schematically”; “Land once owned by his forebears several centuries ago”; “A cemetery where some of my forefathers are buried”; “Descended from illustrious progenitors he sought to emulate them”; (antonyms): descendant, progeny, offspring; 2. an originator of a line of descent; a precursor; primogenitor; [e.g.]: “The right of primogeniture, the right of the eldest son to inherit the entire estate of one or both parents, was established by the founding primogenitors once and for all”; 3. an originator; a founder; [e.g.]: “Those young progenitors of the new music”. [Middle English progenitour, from Old French progeniteur, from Latin prōgenitor, from prōgenitus, past participle of prōgignere, ‘to beget’, from prō-, ‘forward’ + gignere, gen-, ‘to beget’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • progenitor (n.): 1. a direct ancestor; 2. an originator or founder of a future development; precursor. [C14: from Latin, ‘ancestor’, from pro-¹ + genitor, ‘parent’, from gignere, ‘to beget’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • progenitor (n.): 1. a biologically related ancestor; 2. a person who or thing which originates something or serves as a model; precursor; (n.): progenitorship. [1350-1400; Middle English from Latin prōgenitor, ‘the founder of a family’, from prō-, ‘pro-¹’ + genitor, ‘father’, ‘parent’ (geni-, variant singular of gignere, ‘to beget’) + -tor; cf. Greek genétōr, Sanskrit janitar-]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • progenitor (n.): an ancestor in the direct line; (synonyms): primogenitor; (related words): ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root (someone from whom one is descended, but usually more remote than a grandparent); genitor (a natural father or mother). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • progenitor (n.): 1. ancestor, parent, forebear, forefather, begetter, procreator, primogenitor; [e.g.]: “The Arabian stallions which were the progenitors of all modern thoroughbreds”; 2. originator, source, predecessor, precursor, forerunner, antecedent, instigator; [e.g.]: “The man who is considered the progenitor of modern drama”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • progenitor (n.): 1. a person from whom one is descended; (synonyms): ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, father, forebear, forefather, foremother, mother, parent; (archaic): predecessor; 2. one that precedes, as in time; (synonyms): ancestor, antecedent, forerunner, precursor, predecessor. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • progenitor (n.): 1. an ancestor in the direct line; a forefather; [e.g.]: “And reverence thee their great progenitor. | But this pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down | To dwell on even ground now with thy sons”. (John Milton; “Paradise Lost”, 1674; Book 11). ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • progenitor (n.): a precursor, ancestor; one who begets. [from pro- + Latin genitor, from Greek genétōr, cf. Latin gignere, ‘to beget’]. ~ (Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary). • progenitor (n.): 1. a direct ancestor; 2. an originator of a line of descent; a precursor. ~ (The American Heritage Medical Dictionary). • [Wikipedia]: in genealogy, the progenitor (rarer: primogenitor; German: Stammvater or Ahnherr) is the—sometimes legendary—founder of a family, line of descent, clan or tribe, noble house or an ethnic group. In genealogy (commonly known as family history) a progenitor is understood to be the earliest recorded ancestor of a consanguineous family group of descendants. In patrilineal dynasties, each such dynasty has exactly one progenitor. Aristocratic and dynastic families often look back to an ancestor who is seen as the founder and progenitor of their house (i.e. family line). Even the old Roman legal concept of “agnates” (Latin for ‘descendants’) was based on the idea of the unbroken family line of a progenitor, but only includes male members of the family, whilst the women were referred to as “cognatic”. It is rarely possible to reliably confirm biological parenthood, however, in the case of ancient family lines (see bastardy). In addition, the progenitor is often a distant ancestor, only known as a result of oral tradition. Where people, groups, and communities rely solely on a patrilinear family line, their common ancestor often became the subject of a legend surrounding the origin of the family. By contrast, families and peoples with a matrilinear history trace themselves back to an original female progenitrix. Matrilinear rules of descent are found in about two hundred of the thirteen hundred known indigenous peoples and ethnic groups worldwide, whilst around six hundred have patrilineal rules of descent (from father to son). In the mythological beliefs of the Romans the god of war, Mars, was viewed as the progenitor of the Romans; which is why the Mars symbol (♂, a shield and spear), is used to refer to the male sex. Besides cities and countries, ethnic groups may also have a progenitor (often a god) in their mythologies, for example, the Hellenistic Greeks look back to Hellen as their progenitor. In Indian Hinduism, Manu is the progenitor of all mankind. In the Abrahamic religions, Adam, Noah, Abraham and others are described as progenitors (see also biblical patriarchy). In archaeogenetics (archaeological genetics), a human ʏ-chromosomal ‘Adam’ has been named as the most recent common ancestor from whom all currently living people are descended patrilinearly. This ‘Adam’ lived in Africa at a time estimated to range from three-hundred-and-thirty-eight thousand years ago {i.e., a third of a million years ago} to sixty-thousand years before the present era. [curley bracketed insert added] ~ (2024 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). • progenerate (tr.v.): to beget; propagate; [e.g.]: “They were all progenerated colonies from a Scythian or Tartar race”. (“Archaeologia”,1773, II. 250; Davies); “What then, I pray thee, is there dead?... Surely not he who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race”. (Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864, “Imaginary Conversations and Poems”). [from Latin progeneratus, pp. of progenerare (hence Italian progenerare), ‘beget’, from pro, ‘forth’ + generare, ‘beget’, ‘produce’; see generate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progeneration (n.; rare): the act of begetting: propagation. [from Late Latin progeneratio(-), ‘a begetting’, from Latin progenerare, pp. progeneratus, ‘beget’; see progenerate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenial (adj.; rare): pertaining to descent or lineage; [e.g.]: “Whether [the intellectual Soul is] immediately produced, without any progenial traduction or radiation”. (John Evelyn, “True Religion”, I. 159). [from progen-y + -ial]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenitiveness (n.; rare): philoprogenitiveness, in a modified biological sense; [e.g.]: “There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species. It is marked often strongly in races or varieties which no one pretends to have had distinct origin”. (Edward Drinker Cope, 1840-1897, “Origin of the Fittest”, p. 111). [irregular from Latin progenies, ‘progeny’ + -itive + -ness; cf. philoprogenitiveness]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenitorial (adj.): pertaining to or constituting a progenitor; [e.g.]: “Some abnormal growth, like and unlike the species to which the progenitorial germ belonged”. (from “The Congregationalist”, Oct. 29, 1879). [from progenitor + -ial]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progenity (n.; rare): descent; lineage; extraction; [e.g.]: “Harry’s of the old house of Lancaster; and that progenity do I love”. (Thomas Heywood, “I Edward IV.”; Works, I. 45). [irregular from progen-y + -ity]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progeny (n.): 1 (rare): descent; lineage; family; ancestry; [e.g.]: “All French and France exclaims on thee, | Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny”. (William Shakespeare, “1 Henry VI.”, iii. 3. 61); “Now show thy progeny; if not to stand, | Cast thyself down; safely, if Son of God”. (John Milton, “Paradise Regained”, iv. 554); 2. children; offspring, whether of the human kind or of the lower animals; descendants; [e.g.]: “Did ever joyful Mother see | So bright, so brave a Progeny?” (Sir Richard Steele, “Tender Husband”; song); “What idle progeny succeed | To chase the rolling circle’s speed, | Or urge the flying ball?” (Thomas Gray, “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”); “Around this fort a progeny of little Dutch-built houses, with tiled roofs and weathercocks, soon sprang up, nestling themselves under its walls for protection”. (Washington Irving, “Diedrich Knickerbocker”, a novel, p. 132); (synonyms): 2. issue, posterity, etc.; see offspring. [from Middle English progenie, progenye, Old French progenie = Spanish, Portuguese progenie = Italian progenie, progenia, ‘progeny’, from Latin progenies, ‘descent’, ‘lineage’, ‘race’, ‘offspring’, ‘family’, ‘progignere’, ‘beget’, ‘bring forth’; see progenitor]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • progeniture (n.; rare): a begetting or birth. [from French progéniture = Spanish, Portuguese, progenitura, from Latin progenitus, pp. of progignere, ‘beget’, ‘bring forth’; see progenitor]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia) [†]Procreator: • procreator (n.): 1. a person who procreates (brings forth offspring via reproduction); progenitor; 2. a parent; a begetter. [from Latin creare, ‘bring forth’, ‘produce’ + -or, a suffix forming agent nouns; lit. ‘bring into existence’].~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: On a related matter: the words “offspring” and “progeny” and “scion” (plus “descendants” and “successors” and “issue”)—in lieu of the words “child” or “children”—are useful, on occasion, to refer to any such progeniture or biological issue who have matured into adulthood. And they are especially useful where parentage, grandparentage and great-grandparentage (or even great-great-grandparentage) is ensuant upon senectitude. As the word “childhood” specifically refers to the period from birth to puberty—and the word “child” typically refers to an infant (a baby), a tot (a toddler), a girl or a boy (a lass or a lad), youngsters (juveniles) or youth (adolescents)—then for great-grandparents, in their eighties or nineties, to refer their great-grandchildren’s parent’s mother and/or father (i.e., those children’s sixty-to-seventy-year-old grandparents) as ‘our children’ requires a cognitive double-take and a mental accommodation to the fact that those great-grandparents have still not relinquished their long-lapsed primary parenting and/or childcare rôle (the care, and upbringing, of children preparatory to adulthood). • offspring (n.): 1. child, baby, youngster, infant, babe, toddler, tot, little one, brat, chit, scion⁽⁰¹⁾, heir, issue, successor, descendant; (Scottish): wean, bairn; (informal): babe in arms, kid, nipper; (informal, Australian): littlie; (informal, chiefly American): munchkin; (slang, Australian): ankle-biter; (slang): sprog, rug rat; [e.g.]: “She was less anxious about her offspring than she had been”; (antonyms): parent, predecessor, ancestor, forerunner, forebear, forefather, progenitor, begetter, procreator; 2. children, young, fry, family, progeny, scions, stock, descendants, successors, heirs, brood, spawn, issue, posterity, lineage; (chiefly biblical): seed; (informal): kids; [e.g.]: “Some characteristics are always passed from parents to offspring over time”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). ⁽⁰¹⁾scion (n.): 1. a descendant or offspring, esp. of an illustrious family; 2. a shoot or twig, esp. one cut for grafting or planting. [1275-1325; Middle English: ‘shoot’, ‘twig’, from Old French cion,from Frankish *kī-; cf. Old English cīnan, Old Saxon kīnan, Old High German chīnan, ‘to sprout’, Old English cīth, Old Saxon kīth, ‘sprout’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾scion (n.): 1. also called sient⁽⁰²⁾, a descendant, heir, or young member of a family; 2. a shoot or twig of a plant used to form a graft. [C14: from Old French cion of Germanic origin; cf. Old High German chīnan, ‘to sprout’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). ⁽⁰²⁾sient (n.): another name for scion. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). ⁽⁰²⁾sient (n.; pl. sients): obsolete spelling of scion (= ‘a descendant, esp. a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family’). ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • progeniture (n.; pl. progenitures): 1. procreation; [e.g.]: “Since symmetrical and better proportionned children will grow into attractive adults, and will mate other attractive offspring with superior genes which confer on their host a socio-biological advantage, it only makes sense for parents to care more about their progeniture since they are more ‘valuable’”. (Online Comment No. 50, by Jason; October 27, 2006; in response to “Study: Ugly Children Get Shortchanged by Parents”, by Barry Deutsch; May 4, 2005, ‘Alas a Blog’); 2. ancestry, lineage; [e.g.]: “It will be the parent of a long progeniture, and distant councils of the Empire may, in some far-off time, look back to the meeting in this room as the root from which all their greatness and all their beneficence sprang”. (Lord Robert Cecil, 1830-1903, “Imperial Conference”, April, 1887); “And the basic idea of every clans progeniture is a powerful God; the legitimate order in which the descendants of a particular clan unite in marriage to found new families, the essential origin of every new-born babe’s descent in the founder of its race and its consideration as a part of the God in Chief; the security with which the newly wedded wife not only may, but should, minister to her own God in an unfamiliar home”. (Leo Frobenius, “The Voice of Africa”, tr. by Rudolf Blind; 1913); 3. offspring, progeny; [e.g.]: “The women of the people have many labours to perform, and are the ones who manipulate the grains, hydromel {= a mixture of water and honey which becomes mead when fermented} and beer, and grind pepper in the moulin à bras {= hand-mill}. Women who have children of a tender age go at these operations with their progeniture upon the back, after the manner of negro peoples”. (Chapter Seven, “Scientific American Supplement”. Vol. 26, No. 664; September 1888, New York). [etymology: from Middle English progeniture,from French progéniture⁽*⁾]. [Curley bracketed inserts added] ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). ⁽*⁾progéniture (French; fem., n.; pl. progénitures): offspring, progeny; [e.g.]: “Un salarié peut-il réclamer le chômage partiel dans l’hypothèse où il ne sait comment faire garder saprogéniture?”{= ‘Can an employee claim partial unemployment if they do not know how to look after theirprogéniture?’} (from, “Leave, Teleworking, Partial Unemployment; Employees Forced to Adapt”, by Raphaëlle Desmoulières and Bertrand Bissuel; April 2, 2021, in Le Monde). [Curley bracketed inserts added] ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • procreator (n.): one who begets; a generator; a father or sire. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreator (n.; pl. procreators): one who procreates; a father or mother; (n.): (figuratively): one who originates or creates something. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • procreator (n.): one who begets; a generator; a father or sire. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary). • procreator (n.): one who begets; a father or sire; a generator. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • procreator (n.): one who begets; a generator; a father or sire; [e.g.]: “He is unkynd and unnatural that will not cherishe hys natural procreators and parentes”. (Edward Hall, 1496-1547, Edward IV., an. 8). [from Old French procreateur, French procréateur = Spanish, Portuguese procreador = Italian procreatere, from Latin procreator, ‘a begetter’, ‘a producer’, from procreare, pp. procreatus, ‘bring forth’, ‘generate’; see procreate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreatrix (n.): a mother. (Randle Cotgrave, 1569-1652, “A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues”; 1611). [= French procréatrice, from Latin procreatrix, fem. of procreator; see procreator]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreate (v.; procreated, procreating, procreates; intr.v.): to produce offspring; reproduce; (tr.v.): to produce offspring; reproduce; (adj.): procreant; (n.): procreation, procreator. [Latin prōcreāre, prōcreāt-, from prō-, ‘forward’ + creāre, ‘to create’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • procreate (v.): 1. to beget or engender (offspring); 2. (tr.v.): to bring into being; (adj.): procreant, procreative; (n.): procreation, procreator. [C16: from Latin prōcreāre, from pro-¹+creāre, ‘to create’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • procreate (v.; procreated, procreating; tr.v.): 1. to beget or generate (offspring); 2. to produce; bring into being; (intr.v.): 3. to beget offspring; (adj.): procreative; (n.): procreation, procreator. [1530-40; from Latin prōcreātus, past participle of prōcreāre,‘to breed’; from pro-¹+ ‘create’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • procreate (v.): have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; [e.g.]: “The Bible tells people to procreate and pullulate {= breed rapidly and abundantly} and subdue the earth”; (synonyms): reproduce, multiply; (related words): biological science, biology (the science which studies living organisms); propagate (multiply sexually or asexually); fructify, set (bear fruit; [e.g.]: “The apple trees fructify prodigiously”); multiply, breed (have young animals or reproduce organisms; [e.g.]: “Pandas rarely breed in captivity”; “These bacteria reproduce rapidly”); incubate, hatch, brood, cover (sit on eggs; [e.g.]: “Most birds brood in nesting season”; “The female covers the eggs”); create, make (make or cause to be or to become; [e.g.]: “She knows how to make a mess in our office”; “She knows how to create a furore at work”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • procreate (v.): (formal): reproduce, mother, produce, father, breed, generate, sire, engender, propagate, beget, bring into being; [e.g.]: “Most people feel a biological need toprocreateearly in life”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • procreate (v.): 1. to be the biological father of; (synonyms): beget, breed, father, get, sire; 2. to produce sexually or asexually others of one’s kind; (synonyms): breed, increase, multiply, proliferate, propagate, reproduce, spawn; 3. to cause to come into existence; (synonyms): beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, produce, sire, spawn; (idiom): give birth to. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • procreate (tr.v.): to generate and produce; to beget; to engender. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • procreate (v.): to beget; to produce by the sexual act; said usually of the male parent. [Latinpro-creo, pp.-creatus, ‘to beget’]. ~ (Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary). • procreation (law): the generation of children; it is an act authorised by the law of nature; [e.g.]: “One of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of children”. ~ (A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States, by John Bouvier; published 1856). • procreant (adj. & n.): I. (adj.): procreating; producing young; related to or connected with reproduction; [e.g.]: “No jutty, frieze, | Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird [the martlet] | Bath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle”. (William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, i. 6. 8); “But the loss of liberty is not the whole of what the procreant bird suffers; Harvey tells us that he has often found the female wasted to skin and bone by sitting upon her eggs”. (William Paley, 1743-1805, “Natural Theology”, chap. xviii, ‘Instincts’, page 210); “Herprocreantvigils Nature keeps | Amid the unfathomable deeps”. (William Wordsworth, “Vernal Ode”); procreant cause: see conservant; II. (n.): one who or that which procreates or generates; [e.g.]: “Those imperfect and putrid creatures who receive a crawling life from two most unlike procreants, the Sun and mudde”. (John Milton, on “A Defence of the Humble Remonstrance”; 1641-42). [= Spanish, Italian procreante, from Latin procrean(t-)s, ppr. of procreare, ‘bring forth’, ‘beget’; seeprocreate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreate (tr.v.; pret. and pp. procreated, ppr. procreating): to beget; generate; engender; produce: as, to procreate children; [e.g.]: “He was lineally descended, and naturally procreated, of the noble stocke and familie of Lancaster”. (Edward Hall, 1496-1547, “Edward IV.”, an. 9); “Since the earth retains her fruitful power | To procreate plants, the forest to restore”. (Sir Richard Blackmore,1654-1729, “The Poetical Works”, 1797, p. 142). [from Latin procreatus, pp. of procreare (hence Italian procreare = Spanish, Portuguese procrear = French procréer), ‘bring forth’, ‘beget’, from pro, ‘before’ +creare,‘produce’, ‘create’; seecreate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreative (adj.): having the power or function of procreating; reproductive; generative; having the power to beget; [e.g.]: “The ordinary period of the human procreative faculty in males is sixty-five, in females forty-five”. (Sir Matthew Hale). [from procreate+-ive]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreativeness (n.): the state or quality of being procreative; the power of generating; [e.g.]: “These have the accurst privilege of propagating and not expiring, and have reconciled theprocreativenessof corporeal with the duration of incorporeal substances”. (Richard Allestree, “The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety”, 1667; chap. ix, p. 261). [from procreative+-ness]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • procreation (n.): the act of procreating or begetting; generation and production of young; [e.g.]: “’Tis onlie incident | To man to cause the bodies procreation;| The soule’s infused by heavenly operation”. (Times’ Whistle; Early English Text Society, p. 7); “Thus drunkenness is an irregular satisfaction of the appetite of thirst; uncleanness an unlawful gratification of the appetite ofprocreation;and covetousness a boundless, unreasonable pursuit of the principle of self-preservation”. (Robert South, 1634-1716, “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, Vol. II; First Sermon; Rom. 1:22). [from Old French procreation, French procréation = Spanish procreation = Portuguese procreação = Italian procreazione , from Latin procreatio(n-), ‘generation’, from procreate, pp. procreatus, ‘bring forth’, ‘beget’; see procreate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Progenitrix: progenitrix (n.; pl. *progenitrices*; also progenitresses): a female progenitor; variants: or less commonly, progenitress. [history and etymology: Late Latin, feminine of Latin progenitor]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. 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