geniture

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Pliny saith, Shell fish is the wonderful geniture of a pearl congealed into a diaphanous stone, and the shell is called the mother of pearl.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

Moreover it eliquateth the pinguie substance of the kidneys, and absumeth the geniture.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

For Cancer suits one as well as the other, and therefore I put nothing upon him, that I might not press my own geniture.

From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by Burnaby, William

There are, who call Him, by their dreams beguil'd, Mere man; of mortal geniture the child!

From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William

And so I grew to see The deepest truths of God, and God Himself, The geniture of all things, of the Word Becoming flesh in Christ.

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee