unbeget
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Etymology edit
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unbeget (third-person singular simple present unbegets, present participle unbegetting, simple past unbegot, past participle unbegotten)
- To deprive of existence.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
- By any help or courage but his own:
Wishes, each minute, he could unbeget
Usage notes edit
- The inflected forms are rare or non-existent.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unbeget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)