Crossword clues for begetter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Begetter \Be*get"ter\, n. One who begets; a father.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., agent noun from beget.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A procreator; one who begets. 2 (context figuratively English) An originator; a creator.
WordNet
n. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta" [syn: father, male parent] [ant: mother, mother]
Usage examples of "begetter".
Seeking nothing, possessing nothing, lacking nothing, the One is perfect and, in our metaphor, has overflowed, and its exuberance has produced the new: this product has turned again to its begetter and been filled and has become its contemplator and so an Intellectual-Principle.
The begetter of the worst stays here for their week in the stonebox, punishment.
Zaik Godlord was last and greatest, Begetter of Victories, and for that one only humans were enough.
It was that lament which in all the country from Mull to Moidart is the begetter of long thoughts.
Francesca, with the satisfaction of knowing that she was making the criticism direct to the author and begetter of the inanity in question.
But you are my employer as well as my begetter, and I am sure you do not mean to waste my time or your own upon a chimera.
A dream, and the promise of our long-ago celestial begetters, who had not forgotten the distant generations of their children, in whose red blood a thin thread of ichor ran still.
His business now was not that of a spy but of a fomenter of mischief, a begetter of delays--for great things were preparing in the south, where Liman was holding a long line in face of an enemy who showed an ominous quiescence.
Noting that he had flaming hair like yours, the Protectress thought him the divine begetter of the prophecy.
A begetter begets a thing like to itself in species, yet there is some unlikeness as to the accidents, owing either to the matter, or to weakness within the generative power.
Treebeard greeted Celeborn and Galadriel as a vanimar, vanimálion nostari, which greeting Tolkien translated as "o fair ones begetters of fair ones" (SD:73).
Horses rank first in my mind as begetters and producers of unscrupulous agents, but pictures run them a very good second.
I charge you: remember always how long have been the years since your mother's Mothers were the begetters of Kings beside the Western Sea.
It nicked his thumb and he slammed the drawer shut, the cigarette wobbling in his mouth as he cursed the office, the journalistic profession, and trees, begetters of paper.
He had told Rebus all about the rumours he'd heard, rumours of a little club within a club, where the city's increasingly jaded begetters of wealth could place some 'interesting bets'.