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See Genus.

Capability of being generated. Johnstone.

Capable of being generated or produced. Bentley.

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill.

The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.

The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker.

Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton.

To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. W. Nicholson.

ing structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.

One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall.

In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney.

The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

Generality. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Generative; producing; esp. (Geom.),

; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.