5. To generate; to produce.

Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.

De Quincey.

Syn. -- To multiply; continue; increase; spread; diffuse; disseminate;

promote.

Prop"a*gate, v. i. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied

by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate

rapidly.

No need that thou Should'st propagate, already infinite.

Milton.

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