engender

verb6

1. •
   To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

   • Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…]. — 1891
2. •
   To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

   • ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodnesse, which in vs are ingendered. — 1603
3. •
   To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

   • Thick Clouds are spread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear. — 1700
4. •
   To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

   • Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions. — 1981
5. •
   (no longer used) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

   • O Error soone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’st vnto a happy byrth, But kil’st the Mother that engendred thee. — 1599
6. •
   (no longer used) To copulate, to have sex.