gender (jender)

[ The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. IMG:content-2191.png:[blocks in formation] Several sorts which they called genders or species, according as they referred them, either upwards to a more comprehensive sort of bodies, or downwards to a narrower species. Boyle , Origin of Forms. 2. Sex, male or female. [Colloq. and humorous.] "Her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vulgar minds, in a way which made me blush for my-for my" " Gender ," suggested Mr. Squeers. Dickens , Nicholas Nickle by, xlii. 3. In gram., a formal distinction in words, apparently founded on and in part expre ing dif ferences of sexual character, as male and female, or as male, female, or of neither sex (neuter). In the languages of the Indo-European family the distinction originally is threefold, as masculine, feminine, and neuter (the first including principally male beings, the second female, and the third those of no sex), and appears in nouns, adjectives, and pronouns (except the personal pronouns), although among masculines and feminines are included (on grounds not yet made clear) many words designating things of no sex. In the Semitic languages the genders are only two, masculine and feminine, and the distinction is made also in the second and third persons of verbs. In the majority of languages distinction of gender is altogether wanting. In some tongues differences not of sex are made the ground of formal distinc der or genus. Note that in every proportional i tie, we properly call the 2 antecedents gender like tearmes, for likene in quality, which name also serves for the two consequents. T. Hill , Arithmetic (1600), p. 202. gendruret, n. 1. The act of begetting or procreating. E. D. The sinew is of his stones of gendrure ben foldid togidere. Wyclif , Job xl. 12. 2. That which is engendered. E. D. Gentille gendrure to make. Robert of Brunne , p. 253. -gene. [F. -gène , genus , -gena , or Gr. -γενής: see- gen .] A form of -gen in some words from or made after the French model, as in amphigene . gene agenesis (jen"ē-a-jen'e-sis), n . [NL., γενεά , race, stock, generation, descent, + γένεσις, generation.] A kind of parthenogenesis resulting from internal gemmation: a term used by Quat ref ages. gene a genetic (jene-a-je-net'ik), a. [ genetic .] Pertaining to gene agenesis; gemmiparous, as an aphid. geneal, a. and n. Same as genial2. genealogic, genealogical (jen"ē-a-loj'ik, -ikal), a. [= F. généalogique = Sp. genealógico = Pg. It. genealogico, He [Hondius] also engraved a genealogic chart of the Houses of York and Lancaster, with the arms of the Knights of the Garter to the year 1589, drawn by Thomas Walpole , Anecdotes of Painting, III. i. Talbot. An old Roman grafted on a modern English man produced the golden fruit of true patriotism, real personal greatne , and nobility unindebted to a genealogical table. V. Knox, Letters to a Young Nobleman, Iv. We may conclude that between societies of the industrial type there will be differences of political organization consequent on genealogical differences. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 578. 2. According to or characterized by descent from a common ancestor: as, genealogical order. In India, at this day, the members of the genealogic clans are always careful to refer their position to their Eponym. W. E. Hearn, Aryan Household, p. 144. Genealogical tree. (a) The genealogy or lineage of a family drawn out under the form of a tree, with its roots, stem, and branches. Among the rest was the room in which James I. died, and a portico with a genealogical tree of the house of Cecil painted on the walls. Gough , Topography, Theobalds. (b) In zool . , a graphic representation of the supposed derivation by descent with modification of any group of animals from their ancestral or primitive stock; a phylum. Such trees or phyla, now in common use, are the same in idea and purpose as ordinary genealogical trees, with the names of the groups of animals supposed to have been succe ively evolved in place of the names of persons. See phylum . genealogically (jene-a-loj'i-kal-i), adv. In a genealogic manner; as regards genealogy. genealogy (jen-e-al'ō-ji), n.; pl. genealogies (-jiz). [ The Apostle had warned Timothy against giving heed to fables and endle genealogies ; by genealogies meaning the derivation of angelic and spiritual natures, according to a fantastic system invented by the Oriental Bp. Hurd, Works, VI. viii. philosophers. 2. In biol., a similar tracing of the lines of descent of animals or plants from ancestral forms. See evolution.-3. Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor. They [heathen philosophers] do indeed describe the genealogies of their Heroes and subordinate Gods, but for the supreme Deity, he is constantly acknowledged to be without beginning of time, or end of days. Bp. Wilkins, Natural Religion, i. 8. The ancients ranged chaos into several regions, and in that order succe ively rising one from another, as if it were a pedigree or genealogy . T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth. I observe that gout loves ancestors and genealogy ; it needs five or six generations of gentlemen or noblemen to give it its full vigour. Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland. 4. Progeny; offspring; generation. [Rare.] The family consisted of an old grey-headed man and his wife, with five or six sons and sons-in-law, and their several wives, and a joyous genealogy out of them. Sterne , Sentimental Journey. =Syn. 3. Lineage , etc. See pedigree . genearch (jen'e-ärk), n. [ Imp . Dict. gene at (AS. pron. ge-nā'ät), n. [AS. geneát, a companion (in legal use with a technical sense imperfectly translated by 'va al'); = OS. ge not = D. genoot = OHG. genōz, G. geno e, a companion, lit. one who uses a thing with another; The gene at must work, on the land and off the land, as he is bidden, and ride and carry, lead load, and drive drove, and do many things beside. Quoted in J. R. Green's Conq. of Eng., p. 318. gene at-land, n. In Anglo - Saxon hist ., land in villeinage; gafol-land. geneial, a . and n. See genial2 . génépi (F. pron. zhā-nā-pē'), n. [F.] A sweet absinthe, of a rich green color, made from species of Artemisia ( A. glacial is and A. mutellina ) which are found in the Alps. genera, n. Plural of genus . generability (jen"e-ra-bil'i-ti), n . [ generable : see- bility .] Capability of being generated. Which hath power of al thing generable To rule and stere by their great influence Weder and wind. Henrys on, Testament of Creseide, 1. 148. They [the poets] were the first obseruers of all naturall causes & effects in the things gencrable and corruptible, and from thence mounted vp to search after the cel est i all courses and influences. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 6. We speak here of the original life of the soul itself, that this is substantial, neither generable nor corruptible, but only create able and annihilable by the Deity. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 862. generali imo generali imo (jen"e-ra-lis'i-mō), n. [It. (= Sp. generalísimo ), generale , general, + superl. -i imo (= Sp. -ísimo ), Pompey had deserved the name of Great; and Alexander with the same cognomination was generali imo of Greece. Sir T. Browne .