engender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/
ipa: /ɛnˈdʒɛn.də/
ipa: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: engenders
form: engendering
form: engendered
form: engendered
form: engendre
form: ingender
Etymology: From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
Senses: examples: text: O Error ſoone conceyu’d,
 Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth,
 But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 129, column 1:
synonyms: father
give birth
mother
sire
glosses: To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
examples: text: Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
ref: 1891, Henry James, “James Russell Lowell”, in Essays in London and Elsewhere, page 60:
synonyms: birth
spawn
glosses: To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
examples: text: ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
ref: 1928 October 8, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time:
text: Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.
ref: 2009 December 21, Jonathan Glancey, “The art of industry”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: assemble
word: beget
word: conjure
word: craft
word: create
word: generate
word: invent
word: make
word: manufacture
word: produce
word: bring forth
word: cause
word: contrive
word: create
word: engender
word: generate
word: gin up
word: innate
word: form
word: forthbring
word: make
word: produce
word: spawn
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
examples: text: Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there,
 And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear,
 And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
ref: a. 1700, “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in John Dryden, transl., Poems on Various Occasions; and Translations from Several Authors, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1701, book I, page 147:
synonyms: word: materialize
word: take form
word: appear
word: arise
word: be born
word: become
word: rise
word: come into being
word: emerge
word: engender
word: form
word: get up
word: inform
word: materialize
word: originate
word: pop up
word: spring
word: spring to life
word: spring up
word: surface
word: take form
word: take shape
word: upspring
glosses: To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
examples: text: But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Kingdome of Darknesse”, in Leviathan, Or The Matter Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: Andrew Crooke, page 343:
text: I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems,
 Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far,
 Me overtook his mother all diſmaid,
 And in embraces forcible and foule
 Ingendring with me, of that rape begot
 Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry
 Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 790–800:
synonyms: word: do it
word: get it on
word: have sex
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To copulate, to have sex.
Derived terms: engenderable
engenderer
engenderment
misengender