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f putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.

h, etc. I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Gen. xvii. 7.

To allure; to entice; to decoy. [Obs.] A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. Bp. Rainbow.

ward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deut. xxxii. 5.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration. The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. Dryden.

ooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

Generation of pus; suppuration.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

cer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

An old theory of generation similar to emboOvulist.

The act of generation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. -- Fatty clays. See under Clay. -- Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. -- Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc.…