GEN 
aio 
A fex.—Things are frequently confidered with relation 
to the diftindcion of fex or gender. Lowth. —[In gram¬ 
mar.] A denomination given to. nouns from their being 
joined with an adjedlive in this or that termination.— 
See the artic'e Grammar, in this volume. 
Tb GEN'DKR, v.a. {_engendrer, Vr To beget. To 
produce; to c-aufe.—Foolifh and unlearned queftions 
avoid, knowing that they do gender ftrife. 2 Tim. ii. 23. 
7 b GEN'DEil, v. n. To copulate ; to breed.—Tliou 
flialt not let thy cattle gender with a diverfe kind. Lev. 
xix. 19. 
GENDRAY', a town of F'rance, in the department 
of-Jura, and chief place of a canton, in the diltricf of 
Dole : three leagues and tliree quarters eaft of Auxonne. 
GEN'DRE (Gilbert-Charles le), marquis de St. 
Aubin, born in 1688, and made a counfellor in the par¬ 
liament of Paris, and afterwards a mailer of requelts. He 
died at Paris in He is known by two elleemed works. 
Thefeare, Traite del'Opinion, ou MemoireipourJervir a PHif- 
toire de I’Efprit Huniain, 6 vols. 121110. 1733; lince twice 
reprinted with augmentations ; and conlills of a great 
variety of liiltorical examples to elucidate the power of 
opinion in tlie fciences, accompanied with fuitable re- 
fleiSlions. Antiquites de la Maifon de France, 4to. 1739: this 
is a work of deep and curious reiearch concerning the 
origin of the regal dynaflies of France ; but the new 
fyltem on the fubjedt propofed by the author lias not 
been generally acquiefeed in. 
GEN'DRE (Louis le), an hiflorical writer, born of 
an obl'cure family at Rouen in 1659. He I'eceived a li¬ 
terary education chiefly through the favour of M. de 
Harlai, then archbifliop of P-Ouen, afterwards of Paris; 
and being brought up to the church, he w-as prefented 
by the fame patron, in 1690, with a canonry in the ca¬ 
thedral of Paris. Gratitude induced him on the death 
of De Harlai to publifli two eulogies upon him in French, 
and a life more in detail in Latin, the Ityle of which was 
much approved. He next efl'ayed his talent at hillorical 
panegyric in Eflays on the P..eign of Louis le Grand, 4to. 
1697, which he prelented in perl'on to the monarch, and 
which were fo well received by the public as to pals 
through four editions in eighteen months. They have 
Fince, however. Link into the oblivionJuflly attached to 
temporary adulation. He now aimed at the rank of a 
proper hiltorian, and after the feparatc publication of 
part of his defigns, he gave to tlie world h'is Hiftory of 
France to the Death of Louis XIII. Paris 1718, 3 vois. 
I’olio, and S vols. irmo. This is accounted one 
of tlie molt exaft abridgments of French hidory, 
and is written with elegant fimplicity. A treatife upon 
The Manners and CuIIoms of the French at different 
Periods of the Monarchy, before publifhed by him, is 
added to tliis work. He alfo compofed a Life of tli6 
Cardinal d’Amboil'e, witii a Parallel of the celebrated 
Cardinals who have governed States, 1724, 4to. and 
2 vols. i2mo. This work underwent lome criticifm 
from the Mem. de Trevoux, to which the author wrote 
a reply. His liieraiy merits were rewarded by the ab¬ 
bacy of Notre-Dame de Claire-Fontaine in the diocefc of 
Cliartres. He died at Paris in i7'33, at the age of fe- 
veniy-four. By his will he left bequefts for various 
lingular foundations, fome of which, after exciting dif- 
j iites relative to their fulfilment, were applied by au¬ 
thority to the infiitution of prizes in the iinlverfity of 
Paris. He left five hiftories of his own life, eacli com¬ 
pofed in a difl'ereat ftyle and manner, vvhicii he directed 
to be made public. 
GENEALO'GICAL, adj. Pertaining to defeents 
or families; pertaining to the liiftory of 'lie I'uccef- 
fi ns of houl'es.—Among the reft was the room in 
w dch James I. died, and a portico with a genealogical 
tree of tlie lioufe of Cecil painted on the walls. Gough's 
jepog. 
GENEAL'OGIST, f. [yijieaAoysai, Gr. genealogijle, 
Fr.J lie who traces defeents.—Conlidering wluit tralh 
GEN 
is thought worthy to be hoarded by genealogijls, the fol- 
lov/ing may not be a defpicable addition to thofe repc- 
fitories. Walpole. 
GENJiAL'OGY, /I ['yEi'sa and Gr.l Fliftory 
of the fucceflion of families ; enumeration of defeent in 
orderof fucceflion; pedigree.—See the article Descent, 
voL y. p. 751-757. 
GFfN'E ARCH,/! \_yince., a gener.ition, and Gr. a 
chief.] The head of a family, the chief of a tribe or 
faniily. 
GEN'EATIT,y. [Saxon.] A hind, a farmer. Cole. 
ObfoleLe. 
GEN'EBRARD (Gilbert), a French prelate, and 
one of the moft learned men of his time, born at Riom 
in Auvergne, in 1537. When young he entered into 
the benedictine orderat the abbey of Maufac, in the di- 
ocefe of Clermont, and went to profecute his ftudies at 
Paris, where he learned Greek under'Turnebius, philo- 
fophy under Carpentier, and theology under Claude de 
Saintes. Flis application v/as incelfant, and his progrefs 
in the different branches of learning and Icifence propor¬ 
tionate, particularly in the learned languages and theo¬ 
logy. In 1563 he was admitted to the degree of dodtor 
of divinity by the collegeof Navarre, and was afterwards 
appointed regius-profelFor of the Hebrew language. 
This poll he filled for thirteen years with diftinguifhed 
reputation, and had, among other eminent difeiples, the 
celebrated Francis de Sales, who was accuftomed to 
glory in having enjoyed the inftrudfions of fo great a 
rnafter. Fie was alfo preferred to the priory of St. 
Denys dc la Chartre, at P.iris, and to the priory of Sc- 
mur in Burgundy. In 1576 Peter D.uies, bifliop of La- 
vaur, refigned his fee into the king’s hands, under the 
expedfation -that Genebrard would be nominated his 
fuccelfor ; but the latter was difappoinled of that dig¬ 
nity by tlie intrigues of the prefident De Pibrac, who 
procured the bulls of inftitution to be iffued in favour 
of his own brother. Genebrard was fo incenfed at lofing 
this fee through minifterial interference, that he be¬ 
came hoftile to the politics of the court, and joined the 
army of the League, of which he became a zealous ad¬ 
vocate. 'File numerous writings whicli he publifhed 
againft tliofe who fupported the meafures of the court 
and the reformed religion, were uncommonly bitter and 
furious. They were fo congenial, however, with the 
fpirit of the league, that the duke de Mayenne, the 
liead of that body, nominated him to the archbifliopric 
of Aix, and he was confecrated and took polfeflion of 
that fee in 1593. Here he ftlll continued his hoftility to 
the court, and declaimed in his fermons iigainfl; the king, 
even when the caufeof his own party was become hope- 
lefs. When the league was finally broken, and the whole 
kingdom had fubmitted to Henry IV. Genebrard retired 
to Avignon, where he publifhed a treatife De Sacraruni 
EleBionum Jure, ad Ecclefice Ronianie Rcintegi'ationem ; in 
which he maintained that the eledtions of bifhops belong 
of right to the clei'gy and people, and argued ’ violently 
and abufively againll the nominations of kings and prin¬ 
ces. For publifliing this book he was profecuted before 
the parliament of Aix, who in 1596 decreed that it 
fliould be burnt by the hands of the common execu¬ 
tioner, and, after depriving the author of his fee, con¬ 
demned him to baiiifhinent from the kingdom, prohibit¬ 
ing liis return to it on pain of death. Afterwards they 
permitted him to retire to his priory at Semur, where 
he died in 1597, when fixty years of age. His numerous 
writings fliew him to have been a perlon of confiderable 
erudition, particularly iii biblical and rabbinical litera¬ 
ture. He wrote A Sacred Chronology, 8vo. more exadc 
than any wliich had at that time appeared ; Notes upon 
the Scripture; A Commentary upon the Plalms, 1577, 
8vo. in wiiich the author partictilarly applies hintfell to 
■ reconcile the Hebrew text with the vulgar Latin; A_ 
Tranflation of the Canticles into lambic Verfe; Three 
Books concerning the Holy Trinity, 1569, 8vo. Latin 
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