'Beget' definitions:
Definition of 'beget'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Beget'
From: GCIDE
- 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. ]
- 1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. [1913 Webster]
- Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. [1913 Webster]
- Love is begot by fancy. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beget'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- author,
- be fruitful,
- be productive,
- bear,
- birth,
- breed,
- breed true,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- bring to birth,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- call into being,
- cause,
- coin,
- conceive,
- concoct,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- copulate,
- create,
- crossbreed,
- design,
- develop,
- devise,
- discover,
- do,
- dream up,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- engender,
- establish,
- evolve,
- fabricate,
- father,
- found,
- frame,
- fructify,
- generate,
- gestate,
- get,
- give being to,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- hatch,
- improvise,
- inaugurate,
- inbreed,
- institute,
- invent,
- make,
- make do with,
- make love,
- make up,
- mature,
- mint,
- mother,
- multiply,
- occasion,
- originate,
- outbreed,
- plan,
- procreate,
- produce,
- proliferate,
- propagate,
- pullulate,
- realize,
- reproduce,
- reproduce in kind,
- set afloat,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- sire,
- spawn,
- strike out,
- teem,
- think out,
- think up,
- work