To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions.
From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
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