Begot
simple past tense and a past participle of beget.
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
to cause; produce as an effect:
a belief that power begets power.
Historical Examples
Romance Island Zona Gale
The Wonder J. D. Beresford
The Red Debt Everett MacDonald
She and I, Volume 2 John Conroy Hutcheson
Holinshed Chronicles, Volume I, Complete Raphaell Holinshed
The Flag of Distress Mayne Reid
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 2 of 3 William Clark Russell
The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI) Max Duncker
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France
No Cross, No Crown William Penn
verb
a past tense and past participle of beget
verb (transitive) -gets, -getting, -got, -gat, -gotten, -got
to father
to cause or create
v.
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