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  • Rhymes: -ɒt

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begot

  1. simple past of beget
    Synonym: begat
  2. (now rare) past participle of beget
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 284, column 1:
      Good my Lord,
      You haue begot me, bred me, lou'd me.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      This day I have begot whom I declare / My onely Son, and on this holy Hill []
    • 2014 September 4, Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind[1], Random House, →ISBN, page 166:
      [] for the most part empires have begot hybrid civilisations that absorbed much from their subject peoples.