propagate
verb (used with object)
to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
propagative
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a word derived from
propagate.
Example Sentences
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The gemmules possess two sorts of affinity, one of which might be called propagative, and the other germinative affinity.
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
Brook Farm, though American and Unitarian in its origin, became afterward the chief representative and propagative organ of Fourierism, as we shall ultimately show.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
So earnest a man has not appeared since the days of Luther, nor any one whose thoughts are so suggestive, germinal, and propagative.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
Whence proceeds the propagative, or plastic force, in seeds of the vegetable kingdom, 238.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
A dead church certainly, a church having no reaction on the community, a church without propagative power in the world, cannot be other than a calamity to all within its borders.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
