engender

Etymology 1

From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre, from in- + generāre (“to generate”).

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
2. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
   Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…]. 1891, Henry James, “James Russell Lowell”, in Essays in London and Elsewhere, page 60
3. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
   Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. 8 Oct 1928, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time
   Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things. 21 Dec 2009, Jonathan Glancey, “The art of industry”, in The Guardian
4. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
   Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear. a. 1700, “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in John Dryden, transl., Poems on Various Occasions; and Translations from Several Authors, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1701, book I, page 147
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.
   But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…] 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Kingdome of Darknesse”, in Leviathan, Or The Matter Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: Andrew Crooke, page 343

Etymology 2

From en- + gender.

verb

1. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
   As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers. 1992, Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions, page 2
   I focus on […] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology. 1996, Steven C Ward, Reconfiguring Truth, page xviii