About Report a problem

Menu

praegnare

praegnare [LL] 1 to impregnate, make pregnant, cause to swell with growth: a (woman); b (animal). c (soil). a 1424 do et lego ‥ infanti in utero dicte M. uxoris mee si ~ata fuerit Reg. Cant. II 277; to make with childe, gravidare ~are, inpregnare CathA.  b quin magis ex aure praegnantur viscera fetu Aldh. Aen. 82 (Mustela) 6; de iij jumentis ‥ quarum tot ~ati [sic] et tot steriles Reg. Rough 221.  c humor humum pregnat, humus herbam parturit Gir. Symb. II 1 p. 346. 2 (intr.) to be pregnant, swell with growth: a (of woman); b (of soil). a contigit ‥ ut concipiens ~asset [sc. uxor] Felix Guthl. 4.  b non aratro renovatur humus, non semine pregnat / set tribulos ‥ parit H. Avr. Poems 127. 202. 3 (transf. & fig.) to be full, to abound. b (trans.) to be full of, to abound in. dum loculus pregnat satis, impregnare licebit Gower VC III 201; ordine quo regnant reges, sua nomina pregnant Id. Carm. 364. 84 (= Pol. Poems I 362).  b R. cadit, H. regnat, quo regnum gaudia pregnat Gower CT 430 (= Pol. Poems I 452). 4 to yield (fig.), to mean, imply. nec ~at dicta negativa exitum liberati Wycl. Ver. III 225.

Saved

Recent