Meaning

(transitive) To beget or conceive (offsprings)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To beget or conceive (offsprings).
2. (transitive) To originate, create or produce.
3. (intransitive) To reproduce.
4. (as a participle) Procreated, begotten.
5. The produce of money, interest.

Example Sentences

And furthermore, since many inconveniences have fallen, as well within this realm as in others, by reason of marrying within degrees of marriage prohibited by God's laws, that is to say, the son to marry the mother, or the stepmother, the brother the sister, the father his son's daughter, or his daughter's daughter, or the son to marry the daughter of his father procreate and born by his stepmother, or the son to marry his aunt, being his father's or mother's sister, or to marry his uncle's wife, or the father to marry his son's wife, or the brother to marry his brother's wife, or any man to marry his wife's daughter, or his wife's son's daughter, or his wife's daughter's daughter, or his wife's sister; […]

Some of these Kings, dying without procreate Heires.

If the Paiment be half Yearly or Quarterly […] let the Log. of the Yearly Procreat be multiplied accordingly, by ¹⁄₃ or ¹⁄₂.

Word Forms

• procreates
• procreating
• procreated
• more procreate
• most procreate

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