begot

simple past of beget

Verb

  1. simple past of beget

    Synonyms: begat

  2. past participle of beget
    • Good my Lord, You haue begot me, bred me, lou'd me. - c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • This day I have begot whom I declare / My onely Son, and on this holy Hill[…] - 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert...
    • […]for the most part empires have begot hybrid civilisations that absorbed much from their subject peoples. - 2014 September 4, Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Random House, →ISBN, page 166: