Definitions
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 theBible
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Examples
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Mary Magdalene inspires, these women say, because she was not a weakling -- the weeping Magdalene whose name begat the English word "maudlin" but a person of strength and character.
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We gave you a hands-on look at Android last week, and now the mobile platform that Google begat is available in all its source-code glory from the Android Open Source Project.
Android Source Code Officially Available | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Smart politics, in short, begat even better political messaging.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Smart politics, in short, begat even better political messaging.
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Smart politics, in short, begat even better political messaging.
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Smart politics, in short, begat even better political messaging.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Shorter Jwest: 8 years of the NCLB, a bastard child begat from the previous admin, has been an epic failure.
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Their next son was Seth and he married too and "begat" Enoch who married too and bore sons and daughters.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Their next son was Seth and he married too and "begat" Enoch who married too and bore sons and daughters.
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Cain on the other hand "begat" sons who married and "begat" others sons who married too.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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