genal 
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generable 
suture in trllobitcn the great suture dividing the fixed tions also called by some by the nainef/nu/cr: thus, that nf genealogist (jen-e-al'o-jist), w. [= T.gfiiealo- 
irom tli'f movable gena See cut under Trilobita. animate and inanimate objects in American UOKBMM : _,- fite _ yp pg_ n_ genealogista; as genealogy + 
genappe de-nap'), n. KGcmppt |, fc Bel- lSS^^SX { 'tSKSf^aS^StSi ->'] One who traces genealogies; a student 
gium, where it was onginally mauutactuiea.j Fre cl have lost the ne iiter gender, and have masculine of or writer upon genealogy. 
A worsted yarn which, because of its smooth- alu i feminine only ; some, like English, have no gender ex- -r] ie y ( | eny t i lat historians or genealogist* can point out 
ness can be conveniently combined with silk, cept in a few pronouns, as lie, she, it; some, like modern - - -- > < 
i_ji..__-i .!_ *,. Persian, have no gender whatever. 
the first mean man named Douglas. 
Scott, Castle Dangerous, iv. 
Hast thou no understandings for thy cases, and the mini gen ealOgize (jen-e-al'o-jlz), v. i.; pret. and pp. 
... ten *** I A/mi., M. w.uf w.,iv. i. llenc>ll(l(ji , f(lt pp. aeiMalOffiltng. [< genealogy 
pi. gens tl'uniir. s, men-at-arms: gcnn, pi., people, gender (jen'der), f. [< MR.gcndren, < OF. gen- + .;-<..] To investigate or treat of genealogy. 
- ' 
. 
knight or cavalier armed at all points and com- create ; generate ; engender. 
manding a troop ; afterward, a member of a 
company or corps of cavalry; a cavalryman: 
sometimes also used for soldier in general. 
For Crist Jesns I haue gendrid ghou hi the ghospel. 
We come not here, my lord, said they, with armes 
For to resist the click of thy Gens d'armes. 
T. Uudion, tr. of Du liartas's Judith, v. 538. 
2. In France, since the Eevolution, one of the 
corps of national police, a body organized, uni- 
formed, and drilled like soldiers, and consid- 
ered, in a sense, a privileged corps of the French 
army: also used for a policeman of a similar 
corps in some other European countries. See 
gendarmerie, 2. 
logie = Pr. genolosia, genologia = Sp. genealogia 
= Pg. It. genealogia, < LL. genealogia, < Gr. ye- 
tf, i Cor. iv. I5"(()xf.). ufa/o) /a, the making of a pedigree, tracing of 
H ence _ 2. To give rise to; bring out or a family, < ytvn a/ .6yoc, one who makes a pedi- 
forth. 
Whatsoever does gender strife, the apostle commands 
us to avoid. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 12B. 
Its influence 
Thrown in our eyes genders a novel sense. 
II. intrans. To copulate ; breed. 
Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind. 
Lev. xix. 19. 
gree, a genealogist, < ytvea, a race, stock, gen- 
eration, family, descent (allied to ytroc, a race, 
stock, family: see genus), + Atyetv, speak: see 
-ology.] 1. An account or history of the de- 
Keatt. scent of a person or family from an ancestor; 
an enumeration of ancestors and their descen- 
daiits in the natural order of succession. 
The one [covenant] from the mount Sinai, which gender- 
eth to bondage, which is Agar. 
The Apostle . . . had warned Timothy against giving 
heed to fables and endless genealogies; by genealogia 
meaning the derivation of angelic and spiritual natures, 
iv *M meaning me derivation 01 angeiic ami . *c, 
according to a fantastic system invented by the Oriental 
engenders, philosophers. Bp. llurd, Works, VI. viii. 
gender, n., + 2. In biol., a similar tracing of the lines of 
having no descent of animals or plants from ancestral 
b^Sv^WorgSd^rSam: formal distinctions expressing differences .! form^ "-^fOr'SSi 
by Charles VII. ; cavalry in general. The special 
corps of gendarmerie of the army were suppressed iu 1778, 
excepting the Scotch company, the most ancient. 
We should expect to find the parent Aryan genderlets progenitor. 
like the Finnic. 
Were ... to have set on the gendarmourre. 
Bp. Burnet, Hist. Reformation, an. 1551. 
The gendannoni and bands of horsemen. 
Strype, Memorials, an. 1551. 
The foreign mercenaries, the n 
Jour, of Anthrop. Inst., XVII. 257. 
i same gen- 
Note that in every proportionalitie, we properly call the 
2 antecedents genderlike tearmes, for likeness In quality, 
which name also serves for the two consequents. 
T. Hill, Arithmetic (1600), p. 202. 
They [heathen philosophers] do indeed describe the 
gendruret, n. 1. The act of begetting or pro- 
2. The armed police of France, consisting of creating. E. D. 
mounted and unmounted gendarmes, first or- 
ganized in 1790 as a standing militia for the en- 
The sinewis of his stones of gendmre ben foldid togidere. 
without beginning of time, or end of days. 
Bp. Wilkins, Natural Religion, i. 8. 
The ancients ranged chaos into several regions, and in 
that order successively rising one from another, as if it 
were a pedigree or genealogy. 
T. Bvrnet, Theory of the Earth. 
I observe that gout loves ancestors and genealogy ; It 
needs five or six generations of gentlemen or noblemen to 
give it its full vigour. Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland. 
forcement of law and the preservation of order. 2. That which is engendered. E. D. 
Gentille gendmre to make. Robert of Krunne, p. 253. 
Wyciy, Job xl. 12. 4 Progeny; offspring; generation. [Rare.] 
The family consisted of an old grey-headed man and his 
wife, with five or six sons and sons-in-law, and their sev- 
eral wives, and a Joyous genealogy out of them. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey. 
= 8yn. 3. Lineage, etc. See pedigree. 
genearch (jen'e-ark), n. [< Gr. yeveapxric, ye- 
vapx'K, < yeved, yevof. a race, family, + a.px el - v , 
rule.] The chief of a family or tribe. Imp. 
The gendarmerie is recruited from picked men, generally 
i mm the regular army, and is organized into legions, de- 
partmental companies, and local lieutenancies, each of the -gene. [F. -gene, < L. -genus, -gena, or (jr. -yevr/f : 
last being divided into brigades of five or more men each. gee -OCH.] A form of -gen in some words from or 
There are also special corps of maritime ^ndcolonWg^en- ma(le aft _ r ^ p renc h model, as in ampnigeiie. 
ti^ 6 "^^!^^^^^^^^^^^ 1 !^^^ geneagenesis (jen*e-a-jen'e-sis), . [NL., 
in the field. The name is applied to similar organizations Gr. yeved, race, stock, generation, descent, + 
in some other countries. See gendarme, 8. yeveaif, generation.] A kind of parthenogene- Diet. 
He [Emperor Nicholas] formed a body of well-paid of g j s resulting from internal gemmation : a term geneat (AS. pron. ge-na'at), . [AS. geneat, a 
used by Quatrefages. companion (in legal use with a technical sense 
geneagenetic (jen"e-a-je-net'ik), a. [< gene- imperfectly translated by 'vassal'); = OS. ge- 
D. if. Wallace. Russia, p. 207. agenexis, after genetic.'] Pertaining to genea- , lo t = D. genoot = OHG. genoz,G. genosse, a corn- 
genesis; gemmiparous, as an aphid. panion, lit. one who uses a thing with another; 
< AS. nedtan, use, enjoy, = D. genieten = OHG. 
giniozan, MHG. geniezen, G. geniessen, use, en- 
joy, = Goth, niutan, partake, etc. : see neafl-, 
note 1 ."] In Anglo-Saxon hist., a vassal ; one 
holding land for service or rent. 
The geneat must work, on the land and off the land, as 
fleers, called the Gendarmerie, who were scattered over 
1 to report directly to his Majes- 
taining to or of the nature of genealogy; re- 
lf. Kind; sort; class; genus. 
The other motive, 
Why to a public count I might not go, 
Is the great love the general gender bear him. 
filial:, Hamlet, iv. 7. i,~,,^ D >, .,. ~ ,...= . . 
Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are Knights of the Garter to the year 1589, drawn by Thomas villeinage ; gaf ol-land. 
gardeners ; so that if we will . . . supply it with one gen- Talbot. Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, III. i. geneial, a. and n. See genial*. 
An old Roman grafted on a modern Englishman pro- gen^pi (F. pron. zha-na-pe'), ti. [F.] A 8 
duced the golden fruit of true patriotism, real personal absinthe, of a rich green color, made from 
a doublet.] 
. . . 
der of herbs, ordistract itwith many, . . . why, the pow 
er and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills 
lating to or exhibiting the succession of off- he is bidden, and ride and carry, lead load, and drive 
cTnTvcr frnm i Tvi-ntrpnirnr drove, and do many things beside. 
Quoted in ./. /?. Green's Conq. of Eng., p. 818. 
In 
sweet 
spe- 
Shak., Othello, i. :t. greft tnes8, and nobility unindebted to a genealogical table. ' i7,f~^V7/>> in 7 A'n1arinii^~sm< miitellina) 
Several sorts which they called genders or species, ac- V. Knox, Letters to a Young Nobleman, Iv. ?8 of A, feMfett JA/MWJW* 
cording as they referred them, either upwards to a more We conclude . . . that between societies of the whieh are f( X nd V 1 S*?-_^ ' 
comprehensive sort of bodies, or downwards to a narrow- industrial 7 tvpe ther e will be differences of political or- genera, n. f OW- 
er species. Boyle, Origin of Forms. ganizatlon consequent on genealogical differences. generablllty (.ien*e-ra-bll'l-tl), II. [< generable : 
2. Sex, male or female. [Colloq. and humor- n. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., $ 578. see -l)iliiy.~] Capability of being generated, 
ous.] 2. According to or characterized by descent The genealogy of the passions, the origin of ideas, and 
" Her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vul- from . common aric.estnr: as. aene,aJf>mr.al order. tlle generatiiMy of mind. Joh me, Mi ess, Pref. 
gar minds, in a way which made me blush for my for 
mv " "Gender," suggested Mr. Squeers. 
n,'rLv,,n Vinlinlas Vicklchv vlii clans are always careful to refer thei. , _ - _ 
" c Eponym. w. E. fleam, Aryan Household, p. 144. ate or be generated, < generare, generate : see 
3. In gram., a formal distinction in words, ap- Genealogical tree. <o> The genealogy or lineage of a generate.'} 1. Capable of being begotten or 
parently founded on and in part expressing ait- family drawn out under the form of a tree, with its roots, generated; that may be produced by genera- 
' " stem,' and branches. * 
2. According to or characterized by descent 
from a common ancestor : as, genealogical order. 
In India, at this day, the members of the genealogie generable (jen'e-ra-bl), a. [= Sp. generable = 
" ir position to their It. generabile, < L. geiierabilis, that may gener- 
t'erences of sexual character, as male and fe- 
male, or as male, female, or of neither sex 
(neuter). In the languages of the Indo-European family 
the distinction originally is threefold, as masculine, femi- 
nine, and neuter (the first including principally male be- 
ings, the second female, and the third those of no sex), and 
appears in nouns, adjectives, and pronouns (except the 
personal pronouns), although among masculines and femi- 
nines are included (on grounds not yet made clear) many 
words designating things of no sex. In the Semitic lan- 
guages the genders are only two, masculine and feminine, 
and the distinction is made also in the second and third 
Among the rest was the room in which James I. died, 
and a portico with ti genealogical tree of the house of Cecil 
painted on the walls. Gough, Topography, Theobalds. 
(6) In zoiil. . a graphic representation of the supposed der- 
ivation by descent with modification of any group of ani- 
mals from their ancestral or primitive stock ; a phylum. 
Such trees or phyla, now in common use, are thc same in 
idea and purpose as ordinary genealogical trees, with the 
names of the groups of animals supposed to have been 
successively evolved in place of the names of persons. See 
phiilvm. 
tion, in any sense of the word. 
Which hath power of al thing generable 
To rule and stere by their great influence 
Weder and wind. 
Ilenryson, Testament of C'reseide, 1. 148. 
They [the poets] were the first obseruers of all natural! 
causes & effects in the things generable and corruptible, 
and from thence mounted vp to search after the celestiall 
courses and influences. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 6. 
We apeak here of the original life of the sonl itself, that 
this is substantial, neither generable. nor corruptible, but 
persons of verbs. In the majority of languages distinction '"^' i__---n^ /;// 5 !;<; to l n A- Tn a this is substantial, neither -7i-nWf, nor corr 
of gender is altogether wanting. Income tongues differ genealogically (Jen e-a-loj i-kal-l), aai. in a only createable and anmhilable by the Deity, 
ences not at sex are made the ground of formal distinc- genealogie manner: as regards genealogy. Oudworth, Intellectual Sy 
tellectual System, p. 862. 
