Crossword clues for begot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beget \Be*get"\, v. t. [imp. Begot, (Archaic) Begat; p. p. Begot, Begotten; p. pr. & vb. n. Begetting.] [OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See Get, v. t. ]
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To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget.
--Milton. To get (with child.) [Obs.]
--Shak.-
To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
Love is begot by fancy.
--Granville.
Begot \Be*got"\ (b[-e]*g[o^]t"), imp. & p. p. of Beget.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: beget)
WordNet
See beget
Usage examples of "begot".
But I wonder Argentinus has not begotten Aurinus, since gold coin also has followed.
For that which is begotten of the simple Good is simple as itself, and the same as itself.
Wherefore, if God always has been Lord, He has always had creatures under His dominion,-creatures, however, not begotten of Him, but created by Him out of nothing.
For dust was the material out of which man was made: man is the parent by whom man is begotten.
And what he himself had become by sin and punishment, such he generated those whom he begot.
He certainly wished it to be understood that the Holy Ghost was not only the Spirit of the Father, but of the only begotten Son Himself.
Moreover, the bad will, though it be not in harmony with, but opposed to nature, inasmuch as it is a vice or blemish, yet it is true of it as of all vice, that it cannot exist except in a nature, and only in a nature created out of nothing, and not in that which the Creator has begotten of Himself, as He begot the Word, by whom all things were made.
But now, men being ignorant of the blessedness of Paradise, suppose that children could not have been begotten there in any other way than they know them to be begotten now, i.
And they hold that children could no more then than now be begotten without lust, which, after sin, was kindled, observed, blushed for, and covered.
For it was after they were expelled from it that they came together to beget children, and begot them.
For if these two by not sinning should have continued to live alone, because, as is supposed, they could not have begotten children had they not sinned, then certainly sin was necessary in order that there might be not only two but many righteous men.
Now citizens are begotten to the earthly city by nature vitiated by sin, but to the heavenly city by grace freeing nature from sin.
For the very first man, Adam, before he begot his son Seth, is in our manuscripts found to have lived 230 years, but in the Hebrew mss.
But after he begot Seth, our copies read that he lived 700 years, while the Hebrew give 800.
And so throughout the succeeding generations, the period before the father begets a son is always made shorter by 100 years in the Hebrew, but the period after his son is begotten is longer by 100 years in the Hebrew than in our copies.