begotten, ppl. a.
(bɪˈgɒt(ə)n)
Also 4 bigetun, 5 bygoten, 5–6 begot(e.
[pa. pple. of beget v.]
† 1. Gotten. (With right-, etc. prefixed.) Obs.
| c 1200 Ormin 1645 Rihhtbiȝetenn ahhte. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. (1525) 63 A glad gyuer..of true begoten goodes. |
2. Procreated. (Usually with only-, first-.)
| 1382 Wyclif John iii. 16 His oon bigetun sone. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 232 Edward his first bygoten sonne. 1587 Golding De Mornay vi. 66 [Plato] calleth him the begotten Sonne of the Good. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlviii. §5 The only begotten Son of God. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. x. lix. 261 [Ammon] his Issue first-begot. |
b. absol.
| 1382 Wyclif John i. 14 The glorie as of the oon bigetun of the fadir. 1611 Bible Rev. i. 5 The first begotten of the dead. 1685 Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. i. 8 With the Hebrews called the Son or Begotten. |