Old preterit of beget, still sometimes used poetically.

verb. Simple past of beget.

noun. An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

"Mary Magdalene inspires, these women say, because she was not a weakling -- the weeping Magdalene whose name begat the English word "maudlin" but a person of strength and character."

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