"knock up"

[Wilson Gray]

On 9/17/05, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Remember, Adam and Eve were described as "a swinging couple" (see  List Archives).
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> About the only sense that makes sense to me in context would be something like "knock down," "discredit," etc.
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> JL

... Knock off ...?  ... Exclude ...? ... For the sake of simplicity,
abstract away from ...? ;-)

-Wilson

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> "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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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.
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> Bisexual in the Garden of Eden?
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> The closest sense I find is OED2 18.f. To arouse by knocking at the
> door. But there weren't any doors in Eden?
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-Wilson Gray