p. p. of Beget.

Past participle of the verb beget.

Procreated.

The secrets of those terrible prison- houses of Spain, where even the eldest begotten son, and the wedded wife of the monarch, were soon afterwards believed to have been the victims of his dark revenge, can never perhaps be accurately known, until the grave gives up its dead, and the buried crimes of centuries are revealed. – The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume II.(of III) 1566-74 by John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: January 25, 2009

It was at Chandragiri that the British Empire in India was begotten; it was at Madras that the British Empire was born. – The Story of Madras by Glyn Barlow

3: 13, 14. 4. How was Christ begotten in the flesh? – Bible-Readings-for-the-Home-Circle by

He loved the guineas best, but he would not change the silver- the crowns and half- crowns that were his own earnings, begotten by his labour; he loved them all. – Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot

The phenomenon was a war phenomenon due to the war, begotten by the war; for Lady Queenie had said that if she was to do war- work without disaster to her sanity she must have the right environment. – The Pretty Lady by Arnold E. Bennett

A man is bound to the children of his body begotten; the people are nothing to him! – What's Mine's Mine V1 by George MacDonald

Burning with love for the son whom he hath begotten in the gospel, our doctor resolves to send him back to his master. – The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society

He had carried on his official duties in the same manner for a considerable time without molestation, and custom had begotten the feeling of security. – The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

It was begotten, as it was again fifteen centuries later, by the immortal genius of Greek poesy. – Roman Women Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 2 (of 10) by Alfred Brittain

The world is not thus made; man is not thus begotten and nourished. – Birds and Poets by John Burroughs

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, and henceforth there is no more offering for sin. – A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

But exceeding proud sits Grimhild, and so wondrous is her state That men deem they have never seen her so glorious and so great, And she speaks, when again in the feast- hall is there silence save of the mail And the whispered voice of women, as they tell their latest tale: Go forth, O Kings, to dominion, and the crown of all your might, And the tale from of old foreordered ere the day was begotten of night. – The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris

And it is of such meditations that devotion and, by consequence, other virtues, are begotten. – On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by St. Thomas Aquinas

The enemy, now driven into a triangle, fought with demoniacal strength, and that frenzied courage begotten of despair. – The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

Thus arrogance and injustice is fostered in the boy, and a sense of wrong begotten in the girl; the one is degraded in her own eyes, and in the eyes of her brother; the other is elevated above his just level in his own eyes and his sister's; and heart- burning and jealousies engendered that often last through life. – Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster

As he leaned back to drink from the glass she caught the gentle humour of his look, begotten of the incident of a moment before. – The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

His lordship did not, therefore, see these two solid pillars of the British constitution walk across the corner of the Korte Voorhout, cigar in lip, in a placid silence begotten, perhaps, of the knowledge that, should an emergency arise, they were of a material that would arise to meet it. – Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman

Old Judaism, seeing the marvels of the Renaissance, might well exclaim: " Who hath begotten me these?" – Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles