engendrure
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French engendreüre, from engendrer (“to engender”).
Noun
[edit]engendrure (plural engendrures)
- The act of generation.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxxvii, recto:
- So that the clerkes be nat with me wroth
I ſaye that they were maked for bothe
This is to ſeyn, for offyce and for ease
Of engendrure, there we nat god diſpleaſe- So that the clerks be not with me wrathful
I say that they [genitals] were made for both
This is to say, for duty and for ease
Of reproduction, that we not God displease
- So that the clerks be not with me wrathful
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “engendrure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.