propogate

Verb

propagate (third-person singular simple present propagates, present participle propagating, simple past and past participle propagated)

1. (transitive) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
   • June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I
     A marked bud-variation is of very rare occurrence, but in many cases the tendency of plants raised from seeds to differ from the parents is so great that choice varieties...
2. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
   • to propagate sound or light
3. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
   • There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion.1938, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 4, in The Great Heresies
4. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
   • Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
5. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
   • But to [Edmund] Burke, […] the mere act of movement became the principle or cause of movement. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.1860, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 157
6. (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.

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