different between engender vs fructify

English

Alternative forms

• engendre [14th–16th c.], ingender [15th–17th c.]

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?d??n.d?/, /?n?d??n.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?d??n.d?/, /?n?d??n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingener?re, from in- + gener?re (“to generate”).

Verb

engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th–19th c.]
2. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]
   • 1891, Henry James, "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere, p.60:

     Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him […].

3. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]
   • 1928, "New Plays in Manhattan", Time, 8 Oct.:

     Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.

   • 2009, Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian, 21 Dec.:

     Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.

4. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. [15th–19th c.]

Synonyms

• (to bring into existence): beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generate
• (to copulate): do it, get it on, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- +? gender.

Verb

engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)

1. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. [from 20th c.]

Anagrams

• engendre, regenned

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??kt?fa?/

Verb

fructify (third-person singular simple present fructifies, present participle fructifying, simple past and past participle fructified)

1. (intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
2. (transitive) To make productive or fruitful.
3. (transitive) To be satisfied sexually.

Translations