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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
engender \engen"der\, n.
   one who, or that which, engenders.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
engender \engen"der\, v. t. imp.  p. p. engendered; p. pr.
    vb. n. engendering. f. engender, l. ingenerare; in +
   generare to beget. see generate, and cf. ingenerate.
   1. to produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. r.
      1913 webster

   2. to cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the
      seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
      1913 webster

            engendering friendship in all parts of the common
            wealth.                               --southey.

   syn: to breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call
        forth; cause; excite; develop.
        1913 webster
see also:
engendered engendering generate ingenerate 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
engender \engen"der\, v. i.
   1. to assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or
      produced.
      1913 webster

            thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "i saw
      their mouths engender." --massinger.
      1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
engender
     v 1: call forth syn: breed, spawn
     2: make children; "abraham begot isaac"; "men often father
        children but don't recognize them" syn: beget, get, father,
         mother, sire, generate, bring forth
see also:
breed spawn beget get father mother 
sire generate bring forth 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
93 moby thesaurus words for "engender":
   arouse, author, be fruitful, be productive, bear, beget, birth,
   breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being,
   bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being,
   cause, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, copulate,
   create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do,
   dream up, effect, effectuate, establish, evolve, excite, fabricate,
   father, found, frame, fructify, generate, gestate, get,
   give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to,
   give rise to, hatch, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, induce,
   institute, invent, make, make do with, make love, make up, mature,
   mint, mother, multiply, muster up, occasion, originate, outbreed,
   plan, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, provoke,
   pullulate, quicken, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rouse,
   set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, spawn, stimulate, stir,
   strike out, teem, think out, think up, work, work up





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