ppl. a.; also 4 bigetun, 5 bygoten, 5–6 begot(e. [pa. pple. of BEGET v.]

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  † 1.  Gotten. (With right-, etc. prefixed.) Obs.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 1645. Rihhtbiȝetenn ahhte.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb. (1525), 63. A glad gyuer … of true begoten goodes.

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  2.  Procreated (Usually with only-, first-.)

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1382.  Wyclif, John iii. 16. His oon bigetun sone.

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1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxvi. 232. Edward his first bygoten sonne.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, vi. 66. [Plato] calleth him the begotten Sonne of the Good.

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1597.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. xlviii. § 5. The only begotten Son of God.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., X. lix. 261. [Ammon] his Issue first-begot.

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  b.  absol.

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1382.  Wyclif, John i. 14. The glorie as of the oon bigetun of the fadir.

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1611.  Bible, Rev. i. 5. Iesus Christ, who is the faithful witnesse, and the first begotten of the dead.

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1685.  Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Matt. i. 8. With the Hebrews called the Son or Begotten.

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