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Webster 1913 Edition


Geniture

Gen′i-ture

,
Noun.
[L.
genitura
: cf. F.
géniture
.]
Generation; procreation; birth.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Geniture

GEN'ITURE

,
Noun.
Generation; procreation; birth.

Definition 2024


geniture

geniture

English

Noun

geniture (plural genitures)

  1. Birth, begetting.
    • 1759: 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 — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 10)

Latin

Participle

genitūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of genitūrus