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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Old preterit of beget, still sometimes used poetically.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic Simple past of beget.
  • noun nonstandard An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

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