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English
Etymology
From mis- + begot.
Adjective
misbegot (comparative more misbegot, superlative most misbegot)
- (archaic) Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d
To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
Upon the head of valour; which indeed
Is valour misbegot and came into the world
When sects and factions were newly born:
- 1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538,
- A Man defective born or misbegot
- To be therfor a Man deny wee not,
- Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can
- Of attributes essentiall to a Man.
- 1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords,
- but who’s to say this love was misbegot
- with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots
Verb
misbegot
- simple past of misbeget