re-beˈget, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To beget again or a second time. Hence re-beˈgetting vbl. n.; re-beˈgotten ppl. a.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay xxxiv. 638 Palingenesian, that is to say, a Regeneration, Rebeegetting, or New Birth. a 1631 Donne St. Lucy's Day ii, He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of Absence Darkness Death. 1645 Wither Vox Pacif. 136 Themselves to re-beget Into a perfect bodie. 1839–48 Bailey Festus x. 105 All being shall be rebegotten. Ibid. xx. 254 The rebegotten world is born again. 1935 W. Empson Poems 19 Searching the cave gallery of your face My torch meets fresco after fresco ravishes Rebegets me. |