Aggeneration :: Aggeneration (n.) The act of producing in addition.

Degenerating :: Degenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerat.

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.

Degenerationist :: Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state..

Degenerative :: Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Generating :: Generating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generat.

Generation :: Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals..

Generation :: Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc..

Generation :: Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Generation :: Generation (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc..

Generation :: Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

Generative :: Generative (a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing..

Ingenerating :: Ingenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingenerat.

Ingeneration :: Ingeneration (n.) Act of ingenerating.

Irregeneration :: Irregeneration (n.) An unregenerate state.

Progeneration :: Progeneration (n.) The act of begetting; propagation.

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve..

Regenerative :: Regenerative (a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences..

Regeneratively :: Regeneratively (adv.) So as to regenerate.

Retrogenerative :: Retrogenerative (a.) Begetting young by retrocopulation.

Unregeneration :: Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.

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