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progenerate

verb

  1. To beget; to generate; to produce.

    transitive

    Nothing more than that which we can handle , cast down , bury ; and surely not he who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race , than during the few years it was permitted us to converse with him.

Where it comes from

From Latin progeneratus, past participle of progenerare (“to beget”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + generare (“to generate”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry progenerate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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