Hypertext Webster Gateway: "beget"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget.
--Milton.
2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak.
3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
Love is begot by fancy. --Granville.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
beget
v : make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
children but don't recognize them" [syn: {get}, {engender},
{father}, {mother}, {sire}, {generate}, {bring forth}]
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