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ination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

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

f 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.

Act of ingenerating.

An unregenerate state. [Obs.]

The act of begetting; propagation. [R.]

es are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart. He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Chost. Tit. iii. 5.

Unregeneracy.

A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.

feless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

erted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

gles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. -- Alternate generation. (Biol.) See under Generation.

esponse of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.

ong-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

Sexual generation; amphigony.

The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.