Forebegotten
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.
"[…] 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."
Example
More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
From fore- + begotten.
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