"knock up"

[Joel S. Berson]

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>Subject: [C18-L] Byron on the origin of the world
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>McGann's  Byron's Major Works.  p.1017
> From Byron's random notes
>101
>If according to some speculations-- you could prove the World many
>thousand years older than the Mosaic Chronology -- or  if you
>could  knock up Adam & Eve and the Apple & Serpent-- still what  is
>to be put  up in their stead? -- or how is the difficulty
>removed?  things must  have had a beginning --and what matters  it
>when--or how?--- I sometimes think that Man   may be a
>relic  of   some higher material being wrecked in a former world--
>and degenerated in the hardships  and struggles through Chaos  into
>Conformity-- or something like it--- we see it in the Laplanders--
>Esquimaux--etc.- inferior in the present state-- as the
>Elements  become more inexorable---- but even then this
>higher  pre-Adamite Supposititious  Creation must have had  an
>Origin and a Creator          for a Creator  is a more natural
>imagination than a fortuitous  concourse of atoms-- all
>things  remount to a fountain-- though they may flow to an ocean.

Bisexual in the Garden of Eden?

The closest sense I find is OED2 18.f. To arouse by knocking at the
door.  But there weren't any doors in Eden?