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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These curious bodies are produced from the funiculus, and act as reserves of propagative force, as they are not hatched or developed until they get out and find themselves exposed to appropriate circumstances.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
Angels, densest body of, composed of ether, 73; expert builders in ether, 74; family spirits, 80; guardians of propagative force, 74; instruct ego in building archetype, 184; one step beyond human stage, 73.
From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel
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
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
Gonid′ium, a naked or membranous-coated propagative cell produced asexually.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
