geniture
[ad. L. genitūr-am begetting, etc., f. gignĕre to beget. Cf. OF. geniture.]
1. Begetting, generation; birth.
| 1641 M. Frank Serm. (1672) 228 Parents here under the notion of γονεῖς seems very strange, Joseph having no part in His geniture. 1650 Fuller Pisgah iv. ii. 27 God..foretelleth that Moab should be made drunk, (haply alluding to his geniture, seeing he was begotten in a fit of drunkenness). 1759 Sterne Tr. Shandy I. 7 On the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture. 1916 A. Quiller-Couch Art of Writing viii. 145 A man's lineage and geniture being reckoned, as a rule, among the things he cannot reasonably be asked to amend. 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle 439 She had failed him in everything.., in the very geniture of her children. |
† 2. Astrol. Nativity, horoscope. (Cf. genesis 2.) Obs.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. i. ii, He had the significators in his geniture fortunate, and free from the hostile aspects of Saturne and Mars. 1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. civ. 528 In diurnall genitures..you must ever regard the degree of the Ecliptick. 1721 Earl of Nottingham Answ. Whiston 47 The Second (Origin) signifies his Geniture or Nativity. 1819 J. Wilson Dict. Astrol., Geniture, the Birth, the radical figure, the plan of a nativity. |
† 3. That which is generated; offspring, product. Obs.
| 1579 Fulke Confut. Sanders 620 He may deny a man to be a creature because he is a geniture, that is a thing begotten. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1345 Saying, that he [the Sunne] is the issue and geniture proceeding from Apollo who is eternall, and who continually bringeth him foorth. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. Quakers xi. x. 368 The little Seed of Righteousness..receives a place to arise, and becometh a holy Birth, and Geniture in Man. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 320 The Pearl is supposed to be the Geniture of a Shell-fish called Margaritifer. |
† 4. a. The generative seed of animals. Obs.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 259 The Seed is called..in Latine semen, Genitura..And so we wil call it Seed and Geniture. 1620 Venner Via Recta ii. 29 The vse of them..is..an enemy to procreation, because they dry up the geniture. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse App. §1 (1686) 6 As to the efficient Cause of Generation, that is the geniture of the Male. |
b. The prolific germ in vegetable seed. Obs. rare—1.
| 1674 Phil. Trans. IX. 63 That part of a Seed, in which properly the prolifique vertue lodgeth, and which is strictly called the geniture. |
† 5. pl. = Genitals (OF. genitures). (Cf. genitor1.) Obs.
| 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 744 Every strete laye full of the privie members and genitures of the Cardinalles and holy prelates. |
† 6. Math. = factor n. 6. Obs. rare—1.
| 1718 J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. I. xvi. §19 That all the Co-efficients or Genitures of the Terms taken together..yield the Quantity. |