PROPAGATE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Propagate

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Propagate

verb

(past & past part. propagated; pres. part. propagating)

Transmit from one generation to the next.

Travel through the air.

Transmit.

Become distributed or widespread. Synonym: spread. "Optimism spread among the population"

Transmit or cause to broaden or spread.

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

Cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering.

Multiply sexually or asexually.

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"Propagate" Quotes from Famous Books

... together. It was assumed that if they wanted strongly they would see to it that they lived in the manner most conducive to their end just as in all this book I am taking it for granted that to believe truly is to want to do right. It was not even required of them that they should sedulously propagate their ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... wants which nature has implanted in all human creatures. They must feed themselves, and to prevent that task from being insipid and tedious they have the agreeable sensation of appetite, which they feel pleasure in satisfying. They must propagate their respective species; an absolute necessity which proves the wisdom of the Creator, since without reproduction all would, be annihilated—by the constant law of degradation, decay and death. And, whatever St. Augustine may say, human ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... attempts have been made to propagate the coffee plant in the southern United States, but without success. It is believed, however, that the topographic and climatic conditions in southern California are favorable for ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... knowledge or 'theory,' as you prefer to call it, there are no germs of actual death. There are germs which disintegrate effete forms of matter merely to allow the forces of life to rebuild them again—and these may propagate in the human system if it so happens that the human system is prepared to receive them. Their devastating process is called disease, but they never begin their work till the being they attack has either wasted a vital opportunity or neglected ...

— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

... considered in his present State, seems only sent into the World to propagate his Kind[. He provides [1]] himself with a Successor, and immediately quits his Post to make room ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

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