About The Word Beget
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What's The Definition Of Beget?
[v] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Beget: bring forth | engender | father | generate | get | mother | sire Related Terms | Find terms related to Beget: author | be fruitful | be productive | bear | birth | breed | breed true | bring about | bring forth | bring into being | bring to birth | bring to effect | bring to pass | call into being | cause | coin | conceive | concoct | contrive | cook up | copulate | create | crossbreed | design | develop | devise | discover | do | dream up | effect | effectuate | engender | establish | evolve | fabricate | father | found | frame | fructify | generate | gestate | get | give being to | give birth to | give occasion to | give origin to | give rise to | hatch | improvise | inaugurate | inbreed | institute | invent | make | make do with | make love | make up | mature | mint | mother | multiply | occasion | originate | outbreed | plan | procreate | produce | proliferate | propagate | pullulate | realize | reproduce | reproduce in kind | set afloat | set on foot | set up | sire | spawn | strike out | teem | think out | think up | work Beget In Webster's Dictionary \Be*get"\, v. t. [imp. {Begot}, (Archaic) {Begat}; p. p.
{Begot}, {Begotten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Begetting}.] [OE.
bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref.
be- + gitan. See {Get}, v. t. ]
1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; --
commonly said of the father.
Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget.
--Milton.
2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak.
3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
Love is begot by fancy. --Granville.
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