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3.7 Birth-Death<br />

beget, inborn, nurture, pamper<br />

beget = bring forth = engender = procreate = father = mother = sire = spawn<br />

• (beget)- to procreate or generate (offspring), ( ); Therefore, no<br />

one has the right to beget or to bear children except in marital life. — Moral<br />

Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence;<br />

• (engender)- to produce, cause, or give rise to, (<br />

); The sense of injustice they engender is a threat to economic and<br />

political security;<br />

• (procreate)- to beget or generate (offspring), ( , ); If<br />

the desire to procreate is the most fundamental known to mankind, then<br />

there are few more powerful calls to action for an adult than child-in-danger.<br />

— The Bear and the Dragon;<br />

• (father)- to be the creator, founder, or author of; originate, (<br />

); The author got his nerve back, fathered the book,<br />

made corrections; and this edition, too, sold with a rush. — Little Journeys to<br />

the Homes of the Great;<br />

• (mother)- to be the mother of; give origin or rise to, (<br />

, ); She hugged me as though I were still the waif<br />

whom she had mothered, and wept over the little presents which I had<br />

brought the children. — The Crossing;<br />

• (sire)- the male parent of a quadruped, ( ); His sire was a<br />

Manilla blood-hound, which accounted for the extreme ferocity of the son. —<br />

The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon;<br />

• (spawn)- lay eggs, ( ;<br />

); When fully grown they come back to spawn in the same river in<br />

which they were hatched;<br />

germinal > germinate = pullulate = burgeon = sprout = spud : gestate<br />

• (germinal)- being in the earliest stage of development; Such an idea is<br />

germinal, I am certain that it will influence thinkers and philosophers for<br />

many generations;<br />

• of or pertaining to a germ or germs;<br />

• (germinate)- to begin to grow or develop, ( ); On the

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