English

Verb

beget ‎(third-person singular simple present begets, present participle begetting, simple past begot or begat, past participle begotten)

1. To cause; to produce.
2. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
3. (Britain dialectal) To happen to; befall.

Quotations

• 1611, Bible (KJV):, 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: […]

• 2012 February 1, Kathy Gilbert, “Pitching In”, in Chatter Chattanooga, retrieved 2012-09-29:

  Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).

Translations

Related terms

• begettal, unbegot, unbegotten

See also

• sire

References

• beget in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• beget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913