Also 6–7 engendrer, ingenderer. [f. ENGENDER v. + -ER.] One who or that which engenders.

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. 152. The mothers are called genitrices, that is engenderers.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, v. 67. One is an ingendrer and another is ingendred; among men, a father and a sonne.

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1596.  Bp. Andrewes, Serm., II. 94. These [the prophets] also he strove to forget, and as ingenderers of melancholy to remove them far away.

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1625.  Hart, Anat. Ur., I. v. 45. Abundance of ease and idlenesse, the engendrers of all manner of crudities.

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1636.  Davenant, Witts, in Dodsley (1780), VIII. 481. Thou dull ingenderer; Male rather in the back than in the brain.

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1852.  Tait’s Mag., XIX. 53. Still more disgusting engenderers of filth.

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