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Coleridge.

Gen"er*al*ize, v. i. To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.

Gen"er*al*ized (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.

Gen"er*al*i`zer (&?;), n. One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall.

Gen"er*al*ly, adv. 1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.

Generally speaking, they live very quietly.

Addison.

3. Collectively; as a whole; without omissions. [Obs.]

I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee.

2 Sam. xvii. ll.

Gen"er*al*ness, n. The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney.

Gen"er*al*ship, n. 1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.

Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene.

Goldsmith.

2. Military skill in a general officer or commander.

3. Fig.: Leadership; management.

An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust.

Sterne.

Gen"er*al*ty (?), n. Generality. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Gen"er*ant (?), a. [L. generans, p. pr. of generare.] Generative; producing; esp. (Geom.), acting as a generant.

Gen"er*ant, n. 1. That which generates. Glanvill.

2. (Geom.) A generatrix.

Gen"er*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Generated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Generating.] [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See Genus, Gender.]

1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

2. To cause to be; to bring into life. Milton.

3. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk.