generant
nounEtymology From Latin generans.
1
Something or someone that generates; a generator.
- Some believe It [the soul] came from the Moon, others from the Stars, or vast spaces of the Æther above the Planets; some that 'tis made by God, some by Angels, and some by the Generant1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
2
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences A generatrix.