engender, engendren, in gender

t. & i. [Fr. engendrer, from Lat. ingenero =to produce, to generate: en, and genero =to breed; genus ( gen it.generis ) = a race, a brood; Sp. engendrar; Ital. ingener are.] A. Transitive : 1. To beget between the different sexes. "Seth, Adames sone, sitthen was engendrede." pine, pit, sire, sir, P. Piowman , р. 179. marine; gō, pět, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0996.png:[blocks in formation] "The disputes engendered by the most extensive confiscation that ever took place in Europe." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. vii. 5. To be the cause of, to produce. "Al so siker as cold engendredth hayl." Chaucer: C. T., 6,047. 6. Γο conceive, to originate, to start. "When straight another new conspiracy (As if it were a certain succe or Allyed to this), engendered in the north, Is by the Archbishop Scroope with power brought Daniel: Civil Wars , iv. 73. forth." B. Intransitive : 1. To be engendered, caused, or produced; to come into existence. "He knew the cause of every maladye, Were it of cold, or hete, or moyst, or drye, And where the i engendrid , and of what humor." Chaucer: C. Т. , 421-3. *2. To meet in sexual intercourse; to come together. For the difference between to engender and to breed, see BREED. ěn-gen-der-er, *in-gen-der-er, s. [Eng. engender; -er.] One who or that which engenders. "The in gender ers and in gendered." Davies. Wittes Pilgrimage , sign. O. i. *ěn-gen-drûre, s. [O. Fr.] The act of beget ting or generation. *en-gen-ỹ, s . [Lat. ingenium.] [ENGINE, 8.] Ingenuity, invention, mechanical skill. en-gild', v. t. [Pref. en, and Eng. gild (q. v.).] To gild, to brighten, to make brilliant.