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misbeget

verb

Etymology

From mis- + beget. Compare Middle English misbeȝete (“an illegitimate child”, literally “one who is misbegotten”).

  1. derived from *bigetaną✻
  2. derived from beġietan
  3. inherited from begeten
  4. prefixed as misbeget — “mis + beget”

Definitions

  1. To beget wrongly or badly.

    • Therefore, Master Giles, buss the old folk, and thank them for misbegetting of thee, and ho ! you, — bring hither his mule !
    • The greatest of all penalties; for what worse calamity can human beings suffer in the production of offspring than to misbeget?'
    • What about parents who, through fecklessness and stupidity misbeget a sequence of unwanted children and then so ill- treat or neglect them that they have to be removed from their care ?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA