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Noun- A man's lineage.

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Usage examples (17)
  • Cardan, in his thirty-seventh geniture, gives instance in Matth.
  • It appeareth by Cardan (who writeth it upon the report of the bishop of Lexovia), in the geniture of King Edward the
  • For Cancer suits one as well as the other, and therefore I put nothing upon him, that I might not press my own geniture.
  • Pliny saith, Shell fish is the wonderful geniture of a pearl congealed into a diaphanous stone, and the shell is called the mother of pearl.
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