Beget: Definition and part of speech

Beget

  1. v. t. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
  2. v. t. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; — commonly said of the father.
  3. v. t. To get (with child.)

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.