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Word Meanings - PROCREANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.

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  • CHILDSHIP
    The state or relation of being a child.
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • CHILDED
    Furnished with a child.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • PREGNANT
    1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
  • CHILDISH
    1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
  • FRAUGHTAGE
    Freight; loading; cargo. Shak.
  • CHILD STUDY
    A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
  • PROLIFICATION
    Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
  • TEEMER
    One who teems, or brings forth.
  • CHILDCROWING
    The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
  • PREGNANTLY
    In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
  • PROCREANT
    Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.
  • TEEMING
    Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
  • PROLIFICACY
    Prolificness.
  • CHILDBED
    The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
  • GENERATIVE
    Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
  • FRAUGHT
    A freight; a cargo. Shak. (more info) D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. fr merit, reward; perh. from
  • PROLIFICAL
    Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. -- Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • ENCEINTE
    Pregnant; with child.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • RETROGENERATIVE
    Begetting young by retrocopulation.
  • UNFRUITFUL
    Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
  • ESTEEM
    1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
  • MISESTEEM
    Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
  • STEEM
    See SPENSER
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • INSIGNIFICANT
    1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
  • INSIGNIFICANTLY
    without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
  • ESTEEMABLE
    Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
  • IMPROLIFICATE
    To impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

 

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