"pretergeneration" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1958, Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science: The seventeenth century:",
          "text": "In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science, page 183:",
          "text": "Because Bacon does not provide any analysis of pretergenerations in his natural histories, I claim that the process of generating artificial individuals that deviate from their species exhibits important aspects of Bacon's view on how nature is constrained and deviated from its own course.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Preternatural generation; monstrous birth"
      ],
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          "Preternatural",
          "preternatural"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth"
      ],
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        "rare"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "pretergeneration"
}

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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1958, Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science: The seventeenth century:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science, page 183:",
          "text": "Because Bacon does not provide any analysis of pretergenerations in his natural histories, I claim that the process of generating artificial individuals that deviate from their species exhibits important aspects of Bacon's view on how nature is constrained and deviated from its own course.",
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        "(rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth"
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  "word": "pretergeneration"
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