beget
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English begeten, from Old English beġietan (“to get, find, acquire, attain, receive, take, seize, happen, beget”), from Proto-Germanic *bigetanan (“to find, seize”), equivalent to be- + get. Cognate with Old Saxon bigitan (“to find, seize”), Old High German bigezan (“to gain, achieve, win, procure”).
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[edit] Verb
beget (third-person singular simple present begets, present participle begetting, simple past begot or archaic, begat, past participle begotten)
- To cause; to produce.
- To procreate; to father (rarely: to mother); to get with child.
- (UK dialectal) To happen to; befall.
[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] References
- beget in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- beget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
