Beget
[bɪ'get] or [bɪ'ɡɛt]
Definition
(verb.) make children; 'Abraham begot Isaac'; 'Men often father children but don't recognize them'.
Editor: Spence--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
(v. t.) To get (with child.)
(v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Generate, procreate, engender, breed, get, be the father of.[2]. Produce, originate, give rise to.
Typist: Shelley
Definition
v.t. to produce or cause: to generate: to produce as an effect to cause:—pr.p. beget′ting; pa.t. begat′ begot′; pa.p. begot′ begot′ten.—n. Beget′ter one who begets: a father: the agent that occasions or originates anything.
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Examples
- Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Good sense and genius beget esteem: Wit and humour excite love. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To perform promises is requisite to beget mutual trust and confidence in the common offices of life. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- These qualities, therefore, being agreeable, they naturally beget love and esteem, and answer to all the characters of virtue. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There was something about the bulk and weight of the old-time photographic outfit that failed to beget general enthusiasm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As one invention necessitates and begets others, so special forms of machines for sawing and working up wood into pegs were devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was very rich and very respectable, and he begot a prodigious large family--all in his favour, so far. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The war begot a spirit of independence and enterprise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Who, I ask in amaze, Hath begotten me these? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My brother was begotten in his image. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It has been an age of long sorrow of such natures, in such a hell-begotten sort of world as ours. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Forget your foolish gratitude-begotten infatuation, which your innocence has mistaken for love. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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