All 3 Uses of
engender
in
Moby Dick
- engendering an element in him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its confinement, and burn all his courage up.
Chpt 25-27 *engendering = causing
- With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time."†
Chpt 34-36
- And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapour, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapour—as you will sometimes see it—glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts.†
Chpt 85-87engendered = caused
Definition:
cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)