Cardan, in his thirty-seventh geniture, gives instance in Matth. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
It appeareth by Cardan (who writeth it upon the report of the bishop of Lexovia), in the geniture of King Edward the. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
For Cancer suits one as well as the other, and therefore I put nothing upon him, that I might not press my own geniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Moreover it eliquateth the pinguie substance of the kidneys, and absumeth the geniture. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
Would it not rather weaken the right of primo-geniture, or any other old and universally-acknowledged right, should the legislature pass an act in favour of it?. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
Emperor, moved by a desire to erect in North America a buttress for imperialism, would transform the republic of Mexico into a secundo-geniture for the House of Hapsburg. From Wordnik.com. [Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings] Reference
YOU may think it strange, Gentlemen, that of a course of ten lectures which aim to treat English Literature as an affair of practice, I should propose to spend two in discussing our literary lineage: a mans lineage and geniture being reckoned, as a rule, among the things he cannot be reasonably asked to amend. From Wordnik.com. [VIII. On the Lineage of English Literature (I)] Reference
"Here we have the origin of gavelkind -- a form of devolution more widely spread than even ultimo-geniture or Borough English. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
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 upon his journey to London, with my eldest brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Or bird, this birth and geniture we name. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
6. de Azemenis, &c. The time of this melancholy is, when the significators of any geniture are directed according to art, as the hor: moon, hylech, &c. to the hostile beams or terms of & ♄ and ♂ especially, or any fixed star of their nature, or if & ♄ by his revolution or transitus, shall offend any of those radical promissors in the geniture. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Is likewise happy in its geniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Thy geniture, and thy redeeming power. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author] Reference
Mere man; of mortal geniture the child!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author] Reference
The geniture of all things, of the Word. From Wordnik.com. [Toward the Gulf] Reference
Primanouriture and Ultimo-geniture. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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