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Beget

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Verb
  1. 1
    To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire. literary, transitive

    "The King intends to beget a child within the next five years."

  2. 2
    make (offspring) by reproduction wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause; to produce; to bring forth. literary, transitive

    "Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty."

  4. 4
    To get or obtain. literary, obsolete, transitive

    "If there bee neuer a Seruant-monſter i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he ſayes ; nor a neſt of Antiques ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like thoſe that beget Tales, Tempeſts, and ſuch like Drolleries, […]"

  5. 5
    To happen to; befall. UK, dialectal, literary, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English begeten [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Old English beġietan (“to get”), from Proto-Germanic *bigetaną (“to find, seize”), equivalent to be- + get. Cognate with Old Saxon bigetan (“to find, seize”), Old High German bigezan (“to gain, achieve, win, procure”).

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