单词 | begetter |
释义 | begettern. 1. The agent that originates, produces, or occasions something; a creator or originator.onlie begetter, only begetter: see only adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > agent or person who causes causec1374 authora1382 workerc1384 causerc1386 begetterc1390 causac1420 workera1425 upraiserc1440 inspirerc1450 procurer1451 occasioner?c1452 procurator1486 purchaser1548 authorera1556 wielder1570 agent1571 effector1586 effecter1591 authoress1592 effectress1601 effectrix1611 performer1616 inducera1631 causeress1631 causatrix1649 father-in-law1650 pregnatress1651 matter1686 energizer1804 establisher1812 bringer1866 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 65 (MED) Heil be whom biȝetere [L. genitor] A word sum tyme forþ sende. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) 174 (MED) Holy mother..that haste begotte the holy begetter. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iii. 32 The onely one God..the Begetter of the Soules of the other Gods. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets Inscript. To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets. 1637 J. Bastwick Vanity & Mischeife Old Letany iii. 11/1 The word of God is both the begetter of faith, and the increaser of it. a1700 T. Creech in tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (1713) II. vi. 778 (note) This chief Begetter of a Plague [i.e. Contagion] was then scarce held to be a Propagator of it. 1822 Philadelphia Universalist Mag. Apr. 271/2 Mr. H. would represent these fundamentals.., as the begetters of general purity of morals. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 4/2 Dr. Alfred Wright, the ostensible begetter of these very light and graphic sketches. 1947 Mind 56 300 A chief begetter of the sense-datum theory was the problem set by illusory sense-appearances. 1995 W. Hutton State we're In ix. 238 The Western corporatist consensus..was the chief begetter of inflation. 2. A person who begets a child; a procreator; a parent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > procreator, parent, or origin motherOE stallionc1305 childbearera1382 getterc1390 begetter1440 procreator1548 propagator1585 procreatrix1593 breeder1594 procreatress1597 pregnatress1651 multiplier1660 parent1670 propagatrix1803 baby-maker1968 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 28 Begetare as a fathyr, genitor. Begetare as mothere, genitrix. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. lix Abraham one tyme begate Isaac. Ergo he was begettyng Isaac for the terme of hys lyfe, and all begetters after hym. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Riii The begettor of this base-borne childe. 1616 G. Chapman tr. Musaeus Divine Poem 200 Blest was thy great begetter; blest was she Whose womb did bear thee. 1749 P. Annet Social Bliss Considered Pref. p. vii Marriage does not make the begetters of children parents more than nature does. 1795 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 12 June (2003) 297 That exquisite relish for the beauties of nature, of which the common herd of eaters and drinkers and child-begeters [sic], certainly have no idea. 1875 G. Smith Assyrian Discov. 321 Esarhaddon, king of Assyria,..my begetter. 1963 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 24 We use the words genitor and pater to distinguish between the begetter of a child and its legal father. 1992 D. Pinckney High Cotton viii. 205 Guilty families came to wheel their begetters into sleek sedans for useless outings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1390 |
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