begat

• (UK) IPA^(key): /biˈɡæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

begat

1. simple past of beget

   Synonym: begot

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 5:3:

     And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Matthew 1:2:

     Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren

   • 2012 February 1, Kathy Gilbert, “Pitching In”, in Chatter Chattanooga‎, retrieved 2012-09-29:

     Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).

begat (third-person singular simple present begats, present participle begatting, simple past and past participle begatted)

1. (nonstandard) To beget.
   • 1970, Orson Welles, The Begatting of the President:
   • 1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, quoting Sappho Jones, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 12:

     I'm just a dyke who wants a kid/What could be weird about that/You don't have to be straight to begat

   • 2012 January 19, Ed Raymond, “Sometimes That Old Time Religion, Begatted By Bigots, Bishops, Bullies, And Bastards, Is Not Worth A Damn”, in Duluth Reader‎:

begat (plural begats)

1. (nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible
   • 2000, Earl F. Lehman, The God Bu$ine$$, page 59:

     To put food on the table, Ruth gleaned in the fields and one of the fields belonged to Boaz who noticed her and admired her. They married and Ruth bore a son, Obed. There ensues a begat-ridden genealogy and....

   • 2002, P. J. O'Rourke, The CEO of the Sofa, page 146:

     There's a bunch of begats in First Chronicles, chapter six, and it's way dull, especially if you consider what a begat involves.

   • 2002, Geoffrey H. Hartman with Dr. Geoffrey Hartman, The longest shadow: in the aftermath of the Holocaust, page 108:

     In many instances even that cannot be done," and John Edgar Wideman prefaces Damballah with "A Begat Chart" and a "Family Tree."

• This is uncommon in the singular.

• betag

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəˈɡʰaːt/
• Hyphenation: be‧gat

begat

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