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gotten, ppl. a.|ˈgɒt(ə)n|
Forms: see get v.; also got ppl. a.
[pa. pple. of get v.]
1. Obtained, acquired, won (chiefly with accompanying adverb). Now rare, exc. in ill-gotten.
c1340Cursor M. 4913 (Trin.) We haue wiþ vs trussed nouȝt But þing þat we truly bouȝt And so is oure trewe geten þing. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 302 Sathanas..to whom þei maken sacrifice and omage for þis falsly geten lordischip. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 64 Pouertee is better than euyl goten richesse. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 231 The gain of the nyne gotten battailes. 1580Sidney Ps. x. iii, This gotten blisse, shall never part. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 59 Three or foure yeeres passed in great quietnesse, to the great strengthening of him in those new gotten kingdomes. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 265 They should not endanger their gotten Honour. 1715–20Pope Iliad x. 596 Haste to the ships, the gotten spoil enjoy. 1820Chalmers Congreg. Serm. (1838) II. 54 He is apt to be satisfied with the triumphs of his gotten victory. 1894Gladstone Horace's Odes 36 On gotten goods to live Contented.
†2. = begotten 2. Obs.
c1400Gamelyn 365 Of my body heire geten haue I none. c1410Love Bonavent. Mirr. vi. (Gibbs MS.), His furst geten sone. a1637B. Jonson Elegy on Lady Digby, Iesus, the only gotten Christ!
3. gotten-up = got-up (got ppl. a. b). U.S.
1931O. Nash Hard Lines 47 In a tastily gotten-up flat. |