Begat Definition

verb
The definition of begat means you had offspring.
An example of begat is a woman who gave birth to two children.
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Begat, commonly spelled as beget, refers to an event, action or thing that caused something else to happen.
An example of begat is when a court decision starts a riot.
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Simple past tense of beget.

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noun

(nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible.

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Begat Sentence Examples

  • He married in his father's lifetime, and begat a son.

  • Secondly, the definite disappearance of the medieval ideas of a cosmopolitan world and the emergence of national states begat diplomacy, and with it an ever-swelling mass of diplomatic material.

  • This horse, who was never trained, was the sire of Squirt (1732), whose son Marske (1750) begat Eclipse and Young Marske (1762), sire of Shuttle (1793).

  • Touchstone was the sire of Newminster (1848), who begat Lord Clifden, Adventurer, and the Hermit, as well as of Orlando (1841), sire of Teddington (1848).

  • At the age of 105 he begat Enos; he lived in all 912 years.

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Words Starting With

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TATGAT

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