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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

Similarity of origin; affinity. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.

having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a…

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

f growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.

A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.

induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and changes sign, so that above…

Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth.

Incapble of being engendered or produced; original. Holland.

In an ingenerable manner.

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.