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Definition of Generates
1. generate [v] - See also: generate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generates
Literary usage of Generates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1884)
"So, fire generates heat ; but it is by its own quality of heat that it ...
In like manner plant generates plant ; but the formal principiant is the faculty ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"h in a second generates in a gramme of matter a velocity of a centimetre per second.
Force-^. The unit of quantity which we have just defined is called the ..."
3. Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the by William Torrey Harris (1898)
"This activity (memory), accordingly, generates the faculty of perceiving things
and events as individuals of species, or members of classes. ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Mental features of the period-: () the impulse of criticism, which generates new
literary forms; (2) use of learning and science for reconstructive ..."
5. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"from its very nature, and from the state of mind it necessarily generates, can do.
It will, I trust, draw on to other and more serious studies. ..."
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