procreate
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- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 9
Definition of procreate
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To beget or conceive (offsprings).
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verb
- (transitive)To beget or conceive (offsprings).
- (transitive)To originate, create or produce.
- (intransitive)To reproduce.
adj
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(obsolete)Procreated, begotten.
“Some of these Kings, dying without procreate Heires.”
noun
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(obsolete)The produce of money, interest.
“If the Paiment be half Yearly or Quarterly […] let the Log. of the Yearly Procreat be multiplied accordingly, by ¹⁄₃ or ¹⁄₂.”
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Etymology
The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1525; inherited from Middle English procreat(e) (“(construed as past participle) begotten,…
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The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1525; inherited from Middle English procreat(e) (“(construed as past participle) begotten, procreated”), borrowed from Latin prōcreātus, perfect passive participle of prōcreō (“to beget”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3); by surface analysis, pro- + create. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
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