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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Engender \En*gen"der\, verb (used without an object)
1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. --Dryden.
2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. ''I saw their mouths engender.'' --Massinger.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Engender \En*gen"der\, noun One who, or that which, engenders.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Engender \En*gen"der\, verb (used with an object) [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.]
2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. --Southey.
Syn: To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
engender
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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