forebegotten
English
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Adjective
forebegotten (comparative more forebegotten, superlative most forebegotten)
- Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.
- 2012, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex:
- […] the doors She dashed to as she entered, crying out On Laius, long since dead, calling to mind His fore-begotten offspring, by whose hands He, she said, died, and left to his own seed Its mother's most unnatural bearing-bed.