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Definition of Progenitors
1. progenitor [n] - See also: progenitor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Progenitors
Literary usage of Progenitors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"It is very remarkable that, as K. Richard's Progenitors are reckoned Founders
and Patrons of the said College of great Univ. Hall, so in K. Hen. ..."
2. English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations. Drawn from by George Crabb (1863)
"Forefathers and progenitors, but parti cularly the latter, are said mostly of
individuals, and respect the regular line of succession in a family ..."
3. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"Survey of the Series of the Progenitors of Man (in Twenty.five Stages).—Invertebrate
Progenitors (Nine Stages) and Vertebrate Progenitors (Sixteen Stages). ..."
4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"... the Pitris are very sacred, because they are the Progenitors,]] or ... we not
now search for a philosophical meaning in this dual group of Progenitors? ..."
5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1872)
"... unity of the races of man — On the successive acquirement of various expressions
by the progenitors of man — The importance of expression — Conclusion. ..."
6. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"... unity of the races of man—On the suc- ,cessive acquirement of various expressions
by the progenitors of man—The importance of expression—Conclusion. ..."
7. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1886)
"... unity of the races of man — On the successive acquirement of various expressions
by the progenitors of man — The importance of expression — Conclusion. ..."
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