begot

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb

begot

1. simple past of beget

   Synonym: begat

2. (now rare) past participle of beget
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 284, column 1:

     Good my Lord,
     You haue begot me, bred me, lou'd me.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     This day I have begot whom I declare / My onely Son, and on this holy Hill […]

   • 2014 September 4, Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind‎^[1], Random House, →ISBN, page 166:

     […] for the most part empires have begot hybrid civilisations that absorbed much from their subject peoples.