prægnant

See also: prägnant

English[edit]

prægnant (comparative more prægnant, superlative most prægnant)

Obsolete spelling of pregnant
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
  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.