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English
Pronunciation
Verb
begot
- simple past of beget
- Synonym: begat
- (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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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], , →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, Random House, →ISBN, page 166:[…] for the most part empires have begot hybrid civilisations that absorbed much from their subject peoples.