prægnant

See also: prägnant

English

prægnant (comparative more prægnant, superlative most prægnant)

Obsolete spelling of pregnant.
- (Can we date this quote by Glanvill and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And 'twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.
- 1701, John Norris, An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world, page 235:
  The Mind of God as it is Eternally prægnant with them,ſo it Eternally Views and contemplates them, and all things in them,but does not make them.

From Latin praegnāns, a later variant of praegnās (“pregnant”).

IPA^(key): /prɛjnant/, [pʰʁ̥ɛjˈnanˀd̥] or IPA^(key): /prɛɡnant/, [pʰʁ̥ɛɡ̊ˈnanˀd̥]

prægnant

Inflection of prægnant
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Indefinte common singular	prægnant	—	—²
Indefinite neuter singular	prægnant	—	—²
Plural	prægnante	—	—²
Definite attributive¹	prægnante	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.