Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Engender

Engender , transitive verb

[French engender, Latin ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate, and compare Ingenerate.]

1.
To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [Rare]
2.
To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. — Southey

Engender , intransitive verb

1.
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. — Dryden
2.
To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
I saw their mouths engender. — Massinger

Engender , noun

One who, or that which, engenders.