Pregnation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pregnation is a noun meaning (obsolete) Pregnancy.
Meaning
(obsolete) Pregnancy.
Example Sentences
Pregnation. Being great with childe.[…]a being great with Childe. Pregnation, Grauidation.
Upon these Membranes, especially towards the Cavity of the Womb, there are several Glands which separate an humour to lubricate the Cavity of the Womb in the time of Pregnation.
But purging is more proper if it may bee done without danger, as it may in the fourth, fift and ſixt month of pregnation: for a child in the wombe is compared to an Apple on the tree.
And the Womb is here call’d the loweſt parts of the Earth, it being a modeſt Expreſſion uſed by the Holy Ghoſt to denote thoſe ſecret and remote Paſſages which are appropriated to Conception and Pregnation.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pregnance, impregnant, abortment, prevenception, prophetry, afterburthen.
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