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Webster 1913 Edition
Generate
Gen′er-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Generated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Generating
.] 1.
To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender;
as, every animal
. generates
its own species2.
To cause to be; to bring into life.
Milton.
3.
To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
Whatever
generates
a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate
milk. Arbuthnot.
4.
(Math.)
To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
Webster 1828 Edition
Generate
GEN'ERATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce a being similar to the parent. Every animal generates his own species.2.
To produce; to cause to be; to bring into life; as great whales which the waters generated.3.
To cause; to produce; to form. Sounds are generated where there is no air at all.
Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle, must likewise generate milk.
In music, any given sound generates with itself its octave and two other sounds extremely sharp, viz, its twelfth above or the octave of its fifth, and the seventeenth above.