rebeget

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ beget.

Verb

rebeget (third-person singular simple present rebegets, present participle rebegetting, simple past rebegot, past participle rebegotten)

  1. To beget again. [from 17th c.]
    • a. 1631, John Donne, “A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day”, in Poems, published 1633:
      He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot / Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.

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