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

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.

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.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.

Reproduced. The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up. Shak.

The quality or state of being rgenerate.

Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

e sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

mone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature. -- Animal spirits. See under Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embra…

y; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy. A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor.

Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.

Self-generated; produced independently.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

ron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

ture; innate; as, a born liar. "A born matchmaker." W. D. Howells. Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. -- Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [Colloq.]