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misbeˈgotten, ppl. a. and n.
Also misbegot.
[mis-1 2.]
A. adj.
1. Unlawfully begotten; illegitimate; bastard.
1554T. Martin Marr. Priests B iv, Those haue we seen to be the most gredy getters for their misbegotten heires. 1595Shakes. John v. iv. 4 That misbegotten diuell Falcon⁓bridge. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1133 Where no other youthes do exercise but misbegotten bastards. 1700Dryden Fables, Cinyras & Myrrha 354 (1721) 136 Mean time the mis-begotten infant grows. 1749Fielding Tom Jones i. iii, It goes against me to touch these misbegotten wretches, whom I don't look upon as my fellow creatures. 1789Burns Fragm. inscr. to C. J. Fox 15 A sorry, poor, misbegot son of the Muses. 1875–86[see B].
b. transf. and fig.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 33 In the deuotion of a subiects loue,..And free from other misbegotten hate. 1760Lloyd Poems (1762) 97 When Falshood stole them to disguise Her misbegotten brood of lies. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 15 Germany first broke the spell of misbegotten fear. 1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. xiii. (1864) 421 Our misbegotten opinions.
2. Used as a term of opprobrium.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxiv. 5 That misbegotten generation, whiche was proude of the only visour of their ceremonies. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. iii. Wks. 1851 III. 110 Some misbegotten thing, that..vaunts and glories in her stolne plumes. 1815Byron To Moore 12 June, Murray..has been cruelly cudgelled of misbegotten knaves. 1838Southey Doctor cxxxvii. (1848) 346, I should never like to trust my precious limbs upon the back of such a misbegotten beast. 1839Bailey Festus (1848) 18/1 This dim, dwarfed, misbegotten sphere. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll 100 There was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature.
B. n. A bastard; also, as a term of abuse (cf. A. 2). Now only dial., in form misbegot.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1560) 21 b, Saint Cuthbert y⊇ great God of the North..was a misbegotten also. c1550T. Ingelend Disob. Child E iv, What wordes haue we here, thou misbegotten? 1875–86W. Somerset Gloss., Misbegot, adj. and sb. Base born; a bastard. 1877Holderness Gloss., Misbegot, a bastard. |