procreant

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Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have Each its unalterable mother old?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle."

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

The life outlives them and disdains; The sense which makes the soul remains,   And blood of thought which travaileth To bring forth hope with procreant pains.

From Two Nations by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The mystery of the Bay-wings’ nest twice found containing over the usual complement of eggs is cleared up, and I have now suddenly become acquainted with the procreant instinct of the Screaming Cow-bird.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

But if from naught Were their becoming, they would spring abroad Suddenly, unforeseen, in alien months, With no primordial germs, to be preserved From procreant unions at an adverse hour.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery