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ungenerate en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + generate.

Meanings

1. Not created; ungenerated.
   • In his Answer to Eunomius' Second Book, Gregory tells us that Eunomius, a Neo-Arian, claims that because the Son is begotten and the Father unbegotten or ungenerate they differ in essence, leaving the Son less than fully divine, not "of equal honor" with the Father but inferior in power, dignity, and nature. 2001, The Journal of Neoplatonic Studies - Volume 9, page 17:
   • If the Son were uncreated, Arius reasoned, if he were always existing, then the Son would also be ungenerate and unbegotten, just as the Father is; the result would be a Son who is a Father and a second first principle beside the Father, and this is absurd. 2007, Stephen M. Hildebrand, The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea:
   • To my mind that theory will be best which is most liberal in defending the right to life of ungenerate unicorns; I think that, as not everything we speak of is in the real world, so not everything we fail to find there is entirely out of it. 2001, Eva T. H. Brann, The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing, page 81:

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ungenerate en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + generate.

Meanings

1. To undo the act of generation; to uncreate.
   • It thinks of fixed Places, and of Objects called Movables, occupying each some fixed place at each instant of Time, and capable in Time of displacement with deformation, called Motion, by which in the course of a lapse of time, it occupies another place, which it is thus said to generate (and I may now adopt the word traverse, also), it being understood that if the movable retraces any part of its wake, going over it in reversed order, it thereby undoes its work of generation in that part, ungenerates (or untraverses) it. 2016, Carolyn Eisele, Charles S. Peirce, Algebra and Geometry, page 626:
   • The ninety-nine savages would reply—"we don't want what you have created, this increased fertility, &c., &c., &c.; if you choose, reduce the land of your farm to its original state; ungenerate the fruits and grasses; but have it we must ; you are an usurper; you want to establish private property.” 1839, New Moral World, page 803:
   • Sensible people, says Madam Gamidge, are astonished to see how people with a title forgets themselves, as if the man that got the money, that bought the title, was not a better man than they that have it for nothing; but everthing here in this world ungenerates. 1788, Robert Bage, James Wallace:

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Relateds

regenerate · degenerate