arch. Also 5 inngendure. [Bad form of prec.] = prec. lit and fig.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 3744. Of siche a engendure fulle littylle joye happyns.
c. 1450. Merlin, i. 18. My moder … natht knoweth of that thow puttest on hir in thy Inngendure.
a. 1454. Occleve, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134. f. 259 (Halliwell). Leefulle luste is necessarie, Withouten that may be non engendure.
1823. Lamb, Elia (1860), 135. Crown-office Row (place of my kindly engendure).
1864. Lowell, Biglow P., Poet. Wks. (1879), 247. Knowledge of the … engendure and affinities of our noble language.
