Engender vs Procure - What's the difference?
engender | procure |
(obsolete) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Julius Caesar , Act V:
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
* 1891 , (Henry James), "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere , p.60:
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
* , II.11:
* 1928 , "New Plays in Manhattan", Time , 8 Oct.:
* 2009 , Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian , 21 Dec.:
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To copulate, to have sex.
* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), Leviathan :
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book II:
(critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
* 1992 , Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions , p. 2:
* 1996 , Steven C Ward, Reconfiguring Truth , p. xviii:
To acquire or obtain.
* Milton
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between engender and procure
is that engender is (obsolete|transitive) to beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman) or engender can be (critical theory) to endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender while procure is .engender
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Alternative forms
* engendreEtymology 1
From (etyl) engendrer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- O Error soone conceyu'd, / Thou neuer com'st vnto a happy byrth, / But kil'st the Mother that engendred thee.
- Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him.
- Me thinks vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations unto goodnesse, which in us are ingendered .
- 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.
- 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.
- Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
- But that the bodies of the reprobate, who make the kingdom of Satan, shall also be glorious or spiritual bodies, or that they shall be as the angels of God, neither eating, drinking, nor engendering .
- I fled, but he pursu'd (though more, it seems, / Inflam'd with lust then rage) and swifter far, / Me overtook his mother all dismaid, / And in embraces forcible and foule / Ingendring with me, of that rape begot / These yelling Monsters.
Synonyms
* (to bring into existence) beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generateAnagrams
*Etymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered' (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they ' engender their consumers.
- I focus on [...] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology.
procure
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Verb
(procur)- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
