Genitive

jen'i-tiv, adj. [gram.) applied to a case projitrly denoting the cla or kind to which a thing belongs, represented in modern English by the Po e ive case. [L. geuitivus {gig no, gmitus, to beget as if indicating origin, a nusnnnslulion of Gi geuikosgenos a cla .] Genius, je'm-us oi jon'yus, n. a good or evil spirit, sup i>oscd by the ancients to piuside over every peison, place, and llnng, and esp. to preside over a mail’s destiny from his birth —pi. Genii, — jem-i. [b genius gigne, gautus, to beget, produce bee Genus Genius, jenyus or jeu i-us, n the special inborn faculty of any individual, spet ul taste or disposition qualifying fur a particular employment supeiior inhoin power of mind a man having such power of mind, peculiar constitution or character of anything \—/>l Geniuses, jen'yus-ez. Gennet Same as Jennet Gonre-pain ting, rhongi-pant'mg. n. (paint.) the gtneial name applied to all compositions with figuies that are not specifically landscapes or historical painting'.. fFi genre kind, sort—L, genus, Cf Gender.]