It is thus that the greatprogenitors of the world confer favours.
The third son and seventh child of John Jerdan, a small land proprietor and baron-bailie under the Duke of Roxburghe, his paternal progenitors owned extensive possessions in the south-east of Scotland.
In many places man trembles at this day, because his progenitors have trembled for thousands of years past.
Patriarch,--pronounces blessings of his progenitors upon head of the Prophet, 32; blesses Samuel H.
But as we say to the Jews, You killed Christ, although it was their parents who did so, so these persons shall grieve that they in some sort did what their progenitors did.
Still another example is the cross-bars or stripes occasionally to be seen on the forelegs of colts, particularly mules, reminiscent of the extinct wild progenitors which were supposedly striped.
It is the unstable nervous organization that is inherited, not a particular neurosis or psychosis, and it must be our aim in the investigation of the progenitors to discover the evidence of this.
It seems much more probable, therefore, that the alleged instances are merely cases of ordinary reversion to the striped ancestral color pattern which probably characterized the wild progenitors of the domesticated horse.
Moreover, inasmuch as the offspring is never precisely similar to its progenitors he must determine also what qualities are susceptible of transmission and in what measure.
The ordinary notion may, I think, be not unjustly described as this,--that the Almighty author produced the progenitors of all existing species by some sort of personal or immediate exertion.
It was Mr. Lawrence's opinion, that a pair, in which both parties were so distinguished, might be the progenitors of a new variety of the race who would be thus marked in all future time.
One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our progenitors have been such as these?
The early progenitors of man he believes to have been covered with hair, both sexes having had beards; their ears were pointed and capable of movement; their bodies were provided with a tail, and the foot was probably prehensile.
Daksha was one of the ancient Progenitors or Prajápatis created by Brahmá.
The Silk and the Frizzled fowls, from having imperfect wing-feathers, cannot fly at all; and there is reason to believe that both these breeds are ancient, so that their progenitors during many generations cannot have flown.
Of the many former connecting links, some would be found to have become absolutely extinct without having left any issue, whilst others though extinct would be seen to be the progenitors of the existing races.
Unless parents are healthy and vigorous, their progeny are almost certain to be unhealthy and weakly; and it is inconceivable that an extremely obese bull and an unnaturally fat cow could be the progenitors of healthy offspring.
Sometimes a child appears to be in every respect unlike its parents, and occasionally the likeness of an ancestor appears in a descendant, in whom no resemblance to his immediate progenitors can be detected.
His patriotism was as ardent as his progenitors had been ancient and illustrious in this country.
If this power and capacity of change is not inherent to the first progenitors, then I ask, Whence came the impulses by which those progenitors which have not this power of change in themselves acquire them?
But recently the missing link has been found, and these progenitors of Tubal Cain, and the pre-Adamites generally, are found to have been in the habit of supping their broth out of Roman pottery!
In the course of evolution, injuries thus produced may well have been the predominating type of traumata to which ourprogenitors were subjected.
It is not due to his own personal experience-- his ontogeny--but is due to the experience of his progenitors during the vast periods of time required for the evolution of the species to which he belongs, i.
When our progenitors came in contact with any exciting element in their environment, action ensued then and there.
After this digression for one brief moment more, let us take a passing glance at some of the Pantomime subjects which our progenitors delighted in.
In the sixth chapter of this work, in quoting Malone, I have mentioned that the Exodiarii and Emboliariae of the Mimis were the remote progenitors of the Clown of the Mystery Plays of this country.
He believes[JA] that "the original progenitors of our cuckoo, when they began to lay their eggs in other nests, acted by reflection and with design.
The language spoken by their progenitors is supposed to have been identical with that used in the Court of Spain before the days of Ferdinand and Isabella.
It is singular to see a people among whose progenitors in Spain the Christian religion was first planted by the apostles themselves, cherish so little zeal in regard to the observance of its ordinances in any way.
Chillingham is famous for its Elizabethan Castle, but still more so, perhaps, for its herds of wild cattle, the survivors of the wild ox of Europe, and the supposed progenitors of our domestic cattle.
It was not, indeed, the voting strength, although this was considerable, that the Abolitionists brought to the Republican organization, that made them the real progenitors of that party.
They were the venerable progenitors of the children and grandchildren who preceded them.
When he arrives at maturity, he will, under equal circumstances, be mentally superior to his progenitors at the same period of their lives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "progenitors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestors; antecedent; elder; family; forebears; patriarch; predecessor; progenitor
