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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

2. To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

4. To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To become pregnant. Addison.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Impregnated; made prolific. The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease. Byron.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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