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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹiːn/

動詞

impregn (三人称単数 現在形 impregns, 現在分詞 impregning, 過去形および過去分詞形 impregned)

1. (now rare, poetic) To impregnate; to make fruitful.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     his perswasive words, impregn’d
     With Reason

   • 1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul:

     Semele doth Bacchus bear / Impregned of Jove.

   • 1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, OCLC 642619686:

     Th' unfruitful rock, itself impregn'd by thee,⁠ / In dark retirement forms the lucid stone.