Chapter 655

Gemote <Xpage=618>

Ge*mote" (?) , n. [As. gem<?/t an assembly. See Meet , v. t. ] (AS. Hist.) A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witena gemote , an assembly of the wise men .

Gems <Xpage=618>

Gems (?) , n. [G.] (Zo\'94l.) The chamois.

Gemsbok <Xpage=618>

Gems"bok (?) , n. [D.; akin to G. gemsbock the male or buck of the chamois; gemse chamois, goat of the Alps + bock buck.] (Zo\'94l.) A South African antelope ( Oryx Capensis ), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

Gems-horn <Xpage=618>

Gems"-horn` (?) , n. [G., prop., chamois horn.] (Mus.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

Gemul <Xpage=618>

Ge*mul" (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A small South American deer ( Furcifer Chilensis ), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul .]

-gen <Xpage=618>

-gen (?) . [(1) From Gr. -gen- , from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (see Genus ). (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s born. Cf. F. -g\'8ane .] 1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing , generating : as, amphi gen , amido gen , halo gen .

2. A suffix meaning produced , generated ; as, exo gen .

Gena <Xpage=618>

Ge"na (?) , [L., the cheek.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird. (b) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.

Genappe <Xpage=618>

Ge*nappe" (?) , n. [From Genappe , in Belgium.] A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. Simmonds .

Gendarme <Xpage=618>

Gen`darme" (?) , n. ; pl. Gendarmes (#) , or Gens d'armes . [F.] 1. (Mil.) One of a body of heavy cavalry. [Obs.] [France]

2. An armed policeman in France.

Thackeray.

Gendarmery <Xpage=618>

Gen*darm"er*y (?) , n. [F. gendarmerie .] The body of gendarmes.

Gender <Xpage=618>

Gen"der (?) , n. [OF. genre , gendre (with excrescent d .), F. genre , fr. L. genus , generis , birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere , gignere , to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin . See Kin , and cf. Generate , Genre , Gentle , Genus .]

1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs."

Shak.

2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris.

&hand; Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.

Gender <Xpage=618>

Gen"der (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gendered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering .] [OF. gendrer , fr. L. generare . See Gender , n. ] To beget; to engender.

Gender <Xpage=618>

Gen"der , v. i. To copulate; to breed. [R.]

Shak.

Genderless <Xpage=618>

Gen"der*less , a. Having no gender.

Geneagenesis <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*a*gen"e*sis (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ race + E. genesis .] (Biol.) Alternate generation. See under Generation .

Genealogic <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*a*log"ic (?) , a. Genealogical.

Genealogical <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*a*log"ic*al (?) , a. [Cf. F. g\'82n\'82alogique .] Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order. -- Gen`e*a*log"ic*al*ly , adv.

Genealogical tree , a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.

Genealogist <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*al"o*gist (?) , n. [Cf. F. g\'82n\'82alogiste .] One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

Genealogize <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*al"o*gize (?) , v. i. To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

Genealogy <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*al"o*gy (?) , n. ; pl. Genealogies (#) . [OE. genealogi , genelogie , OF. genelogie , F. g\'82n\'82alogie , L. genealogia , fr. Gr. <?/; <?/ birth, race, descent (akin to L. genus ) + <?/ discourse.]

1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

2. Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Genearch <Xpage=618>

Gen"e*arch (?) , n. [Gr. <?/; <?/ race + <?/ a leader.] The chief of a family or tribe.

Genera <Xpage=618>

Gen"e*ra (?) , n. pl. See Genus .

Generability <Xpage=618>

Gen`er*a*bil"i*ty (?) , n. Capability of being generated.

Johnstone.

Generable <Xpage=618>

Gen"er*a*ble (?) , a. [L. generabilis .] Capable of being generated or produced.

Bentley.

General <Xpage=618>

Gen"er*al (?) , a. [F. g\'82n\'82ral , fr. L. generalis . See Genus .] 1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy .

2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion .

3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression .

4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.

This general applause and cheerful s<?/out Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. Shak.

5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire .

Milton.

6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part.

His general behavior vain, ridiculous. Shak.

7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method .

&hand; The word general , annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior ; as, attorney- general ; adjutant general ; commissary general ; quartermaster general ; vicar- general , etc.

General agent (Law) , an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. -- General assembly . See the Note under Assembly . -- General average , General Court . See under Average , Court . -- General court-martial (Mil.) , the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. -- General dealer (Com.) , a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. -- General demurrer (Law) , a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. Abbott . -- General epistle , a canonical epistle. -- General guides (Mil.) , two sergeants (called the right , and the left , general guide ) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. Farrow . -- General hospitals (Mil.) , hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. Farrow . General issue (Law) , an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. Bouvier . Burrill . -- General lien (Law) , a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. -- General officer (Mil.) , any officer having a rank above that of colonel. -- General orders (Mil.) , orders from headquarters published to the whole command. -- General practitioner , in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. -- General ship , a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. -- General term (Logic) , a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. -- General verdict (Law) , the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, "for the plaintiff" or "for the defendant". Burrill . -- General warrant (Law) , a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals.

Syn. General , Common , Universal . Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and hence, that which is often met with. General is stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority of the individuals which compose a genus , or whole. Universal , that which pertains to all without exception. To be able to read and write is so common an attainment in the United States, that we may pronounce it general , though by no means universal .

Gen"er*al (?) , n. [F. g\'82n\'82ral . See General ., a. ]

1. The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular .

In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals . Locke.

2. (Mil.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

&hand; In the United States the office of General of the Army has been created by temporary laws, and has been held only by Generals U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, and P. H. Sheridan. <-- = 5-star general. Eisenhower? MacArthur? Pershing? -->Popularly, the title General is given to various general officers , as General, Lieutenant general, Major general, Brigadier general, Commissary general, etc. See Brigadier general , Lieutenant general , Major general , in the Vocabulary.

3. (Mil.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general .

4. (Eccl.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.

5. The public; the people; the vulgar. [Obs.]

Shak.

In general , in the main; for the most part.

Generalia <Xpage=618>

Gen`e*ra"li*a (?) , n. pl. [Neut. pl., fr. L. generalis .] Generalities; general terms.

J. S. Mill.

Generalissimo <Xpage=618>

Gen`er*al*is"si*mo (?) , n. [It., superl. of generale general. See General , a. ] The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.

Generality <Xpage=618>

Gen`er*al"i*ty (?) , n. ; pl. Generalities (#) . [L. generalitas : cf. F. g\'82n\'82ralit\'82 . Cf. Generalty .]

1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

Hooker.

2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.

Let us descend from generalities to particulars. Landor.

The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate.

3. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind .

Generalizable <Xpage=618>

Gen"er*al*i`za*ble (?) , a. Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.

Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable . Coleridge

Generalization <Xpage=618>

Gen`er*al*i*za"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. g\'82n\'82ralisation .]

1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.

Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton.

2. A general inference.

Generalize <Xpage=618>

Gen"er*al*ize (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Generalized (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Generalizing (?) .] [Cf. F. g\'82n\'82raliser .]

1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. W. Nicholson.

2. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.

When a fact is generalized , our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation. Sir W. Hamilton.

3. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.

A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. Coleridge.

Generalize <Xpage=618>

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.

Generalized <Xpage=618>

Gen"er*al*ized (?) , a. (Zo\'94l.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type .

Generalizer <Xpage=618>

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

Tyndall.

Generally <Xpage=618>

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.

Generalness <Xpage=618>

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

Sir P. Sidney.

Generalship <Xpage=618>

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.

Generalty <Xpage=618>

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

Sir M. Hale.

Generant <Xpage=618>

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

Generant <Xpage=618>

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

Glanvill.

2. (Geom.) A generatrix.

Generate <Xpage=618>

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. Arbuthnot.

4. (Math.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

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Generation <Xpage=619>

Gen`er*a"tion (?) , n. [OE. generacioun , F. g\'82n\'82ration , fr.L. generatio .] 1. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

2. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc .

3. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

4. 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.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. Gen. v. 1.

Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations . Baruch vi. 3.

All generations and ages of the Christian church. Hooker.

5. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Thy mother's of my generation ; what's she, if I be a dog? Shak.

6. (Geom.) 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 .

7. (Biol.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

&hand; There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova.

Alternate generation (Biol.) , alternation of sexual with asexual generation, in which the products of one process differ from those of the other, -- a form of reproduction common both to animal and vegetable organisms. In the simplest form, the organism arising from sexual generation produces offspiring unlike itself, agamogenetically. These, however, in time acquire reproductive organs, and from their impregnated germs the original parent form is reproduced. In more complicated cases, the first series of organisms produced agamogenetically may give rise to others by a like process, and these in turn to still other generations. Ultimately, however, a generation is formed which develops sexual organs, and the original form is reproduced. -- Spontaneous generation (Biol.) , the fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters; abiogenesis.

Generative <Xpage=619>

Gen"er*a*tive (?) , a. [Cf. F. g\'82n\'82ratif .] Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle."

Bentley.

Generator <Xpage=619>