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geniture
noun as in delivery
Strongest match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Olakunde told me of the cities, that they are moated and have great walls, and are surrounded by rings of forest which are designed to repel the incursions of horsemen; and he spake of the mansions of that place, where many families of one geniture live together around one fine atrium.
Now it appears by a memorandum in my father’s pocket-book, which now lies upon the table, “That on Lady-day, which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,——my father set out upon his journey to London, with my eldest brother Bobby, to fix him at Westminster school;” and, as it appears from the same authority, “That he did not get down to his wife and family till the second week in May following,”—it brings the thing almost to a certainty.
Hic fuit expertus in quovis jure Robertus, De Waldeby dictus nunc est sub marmore strictus; Sacre Scripture Doctor fuit, et geniture Ingenuus Medicus et plebis semper amicus Presul Adurensis posthoc Archas Dublinensis Hinc Cicestrensis, tandem Primas Eborensis Quarto kalend.
Heavy smoking, said the New York World-Telegram, quoting a health tract published in London in 1637, "drieth the brain, dimmeth the sight, vitiateth the smell, hurteth the stomach, corrupteth the breath, annoyeth the milt, eliquateth the pinguie substance of the kidnies and absumeth the geniture."
Moreover it eliquateth the pinguie substance of the kidneys, and absumeth the geniture.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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