beget
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to beget (third-person singular simple present begets, present participle begetting, simple past begot or archaic, begat, past participle begotten)
[edit] Quotations
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)[1], Genesis 5:3
- And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
[edit] Translations
to cause, to produce
to procreate
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- beget in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- beget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
