Begat meaning

The definition of begat means you had offspring.

An example of begat is a woman who gave birth to two children.

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

verb
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Simple past tense of beget.
verb
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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).

  • Pot-8-os was the sire of Waxy (1790) out of Maria (1777) by Herod out of Lisette (1772) by Snap. Waxy, who has been not inaptly termed the ace of trumps in the Stud'-Book, begat Whalebone (1807), Web (1808), Woful (1809), Wire (1811), Whisker (1812), and Waxy Pope (1806), all but the last being out of Penelope (1798) by Trumpator (1782) from Prunella (1788) by Highflyer out of Promise by Snap, while Waxy Pope was out of Prunella, dam of Parasol (1800) by Pot-8-os.

  • 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).

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