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<p><b>3.</b> <def>Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I counsel that all Israel be <b>generally</b> gathered unto thee. <i>2 Sam. xvii. ll.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Generalness</h1> <Xpage=618>

<hw>Gen"er*al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.</def>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Generalship</h1> <Xpage=618>

<hw>Gen"er*al*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.</def>

<blockquote>Your <b>generalship</b> puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Military skill in a general officer or commander.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Fig.: Leadership; management.</def>

<blockquote>An artful stroke of <b>generalship</b> in Trim to raise a dust. <i>Sterne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Generalty</h1> <Xpage=618>

<hw>Gen"er*al*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Generality.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir M. Hale.</i>

<h1>Generant</h1> <Xpage=618>

<hw>Gen"er*ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>generans</ets>, <ets>p. pr.</ets> of <ets>generare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Generative; producing</def>; esp. <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <def>acting as a generant.</def>

<h1>Generant</h1> <Xpage=618>

<hw>Gen"er*ant</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That which generates.</def>

<i>Glanvill.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>A generatrix.</def>

<h1>Generate</h1> <Xpage=618>

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

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; <as>as, every animal <ex>generates</ex> its own species</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to be; to bring into life.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.</def>

<blockquote>Whatever <b>generates</b> a quantity of good chyle must likewise <b>generate</b> milk. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.</def>