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continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]

Sexual propagation. [R.]

majesty), a title granted by the pope to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of Austria in right of the throne of Hungary. -- Apostolic see, a see founded and governed by an apostle; specifically, t…

Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation. The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison.

nuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay.

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc. The universal dissemination of those writings. Wayland.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. Dryden.

To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Ro…

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

pecifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.

the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom.

A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.

The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.

The act of begetting; propagation. [R.]

Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.

Propagation by seed. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation. [Obs.] Johnson.

A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.