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Beget   /bɪgˈɛt/   Listen
verb
Beget  v. t.  (past begot, archaic begat; past part. begotten; pres. part. begetting)  
1.
To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; commonly said of the father. "Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget."
2.
To get (with child.) (Obs.)
3.
To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. "Love is begot by fancy."





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"Beget" Quotes from Famous Books



... opinion of an ancient upon this occasion, "that executions rather whet than dull the edge of vices: that they do not beget the care of doing well, that being the work of reason and discipline, but only a care not to ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... always an amorous and fantastic animal, using his reason to justify his passions, and his imagination to justify his illusions. He is always the animal who can laugh, the animal who can cry, the animal who can beget or bear children. He is only in a quite secondary sense the animal who ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... over to a triumphal alliance of Russian and French militarism, while England controls the highways and waterways of mankind by a fleet whose function is "to dictate the maritime law of nations," will beget indeed a new Europe, but a Europe whose acquiescence is due to fear and the continued pressure of well-sustained force—a Europe submitted to the despotism of unnatural alliances designed to arrest the ...
— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement
... connected with daily papers, others independent. It may be said that they are not taken at English clubs because they would not be read. If so, the more's the pity; but I do not think it is so; for this is a case in which supply would beget demand. At any rate, there must be numbers of people in London who would be glad to keep fairly in touch with American life, if they could do so without too much trouble. Why should there not be an Anglo-American social club, organised with the special purpose of bringing America ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer
... made very frank representations to him on several occasions, the burden of them being that common people beget common ideas, common associations corrupt good manners, and that "nice" girls would continue to view with disdain and might ultimately ostracise any misguided young man of their own caste who played about with a woman for whose existence ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers


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