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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Procreat(e, v. P.t. procreat, procreatit. P.p. procreat(e, -iatt. [e.m.E. procreat(e (1546), p.p. late ME and e.m.E. procreat(e (15th c.), procreated (1536), L. prōcreāt- p.p. stem of prōcreāre.] tr. To procreate, beget, engender. Also transf. and fig.(1) c1515 Asl. MS I 301/2.
Adam of iijc & xxxti ȝeris procreat Seth of quhom com the sonnis of God Ib. 301/5, etc. 1549 Compl. 54/3.
Al thing that the eird procreatis Ib. 56/21.
Man & beyst ande al vthir thyng that euyr vas procreat on the eird Ib. 61/19. 1554 Misc. Bann. C. III 76. 1567 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots I 559.
Hir majestie being … apt and able to procreate and bring forth ma children a1578 Pitsc. I 80/18.
The earle … was despairitt to haue procreat or getting ony childerin 1580 Wemyss of Bogie MSS.
Airis femell … lauchtfullie procreat 1582–3 Crail B. Ct. MS 7 March.
Elezabeth Richartsoun … procreatit and bwir ane man chylde 1632 Lithgow Trav. iv 170.
Some of these kings dying without procreate heires(2) 1533 Boece 110 b.
Ane princes memorative of the fare barnis apoun hir procreate [L. liberorum ex ea susceptorum] 1570 Bann. Memor. 28.
The ischew that mycht haue bene procreat betwixt thame 1571 Sempill Sat. P. xxviii 138.
Feirand he procreat children with the quene 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i 30.
Sonnes … gotten and procreat vpon ane concubine Ib. ii 73.
Quhen ane man mareis ane heretrice … : procreates vpon hir ane quick barne … and [etc.] 1621 Misc. Bann. C. II 247.
Procreat betuix his said vmquhile mother and me 1626 Justiciary Cases I 53.
In the quhilk hayneus syn thair is procreat be the said Euphame to the said Alexander ane madin bairne 1627 Ib. 72. a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 301.
And to the heirs to be procreat betuixt them 1637 Misc. Spald. C. V 325. 1670 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 20 July.
Cheildrein laufully procriatt betuixt … the said Johne Neilsone and hir 1671 Cunningham Diary 25.
In caise ther be no airs maill procreat betwixt to succeed to Johnstountransf. 1549 Compl. 128/22.
The successouris of ouer foir father Adam quhilkis var lauberaris of the grond and be there prudent inuention and pollice hes procreat the stait that thai posses Ib. 128/7.fig. 1581 Sat. P. xliv 39.
Sik childrene hes he [sc. Satan] procreat to be Duellaris into his Babilon, Geneue
