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The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.

Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth.

Incapble of being engendered or produced; original. Holland.

As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

ords pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender. -- Mas"cu*line*ly, adv. -- Mas"cu*line*ness, n.

gnating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

om the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc. Max Müller.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. It engenders choler, planteth anger. Shak.

A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

ctive with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.

ing a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons. And when thou fail'st -- as God forbid the hour! --Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend! Shak. God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2.…

Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary. Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this. Shak.