English

Alternative forms

• fore-begotten

Adjective

forebegotten ‎(comparative more forebegotten, superlative most forebegotten)

1. 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.