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begetter|bɪˈgɛtə(r)|
Also 5 begetare, 6 begettor.
[f. beget v. + -er1.]
1. One who begets; a procreator.
c1440Promp. Parv. 28/2 Begetare, as a fathyr, genitor. Begetare, as mothere, genitrix. 1587Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 126 The begettor of this base-borne childe. 1616Chapman Musæus 200 Blest was thy great begetter; blest was she Whose womb did bear thee. 1875G. Smith Assyr. Discov. 321 Esarhaddon, king of Assyria,..my begetter.
2. fig. and transf. The agent that originates, produces, or occasions.
1587Golding De Mornay iii. 28 The onely one God..the Begetter of the Soules of the other Gods. 1606Shakes. Sonn. (Inscr.) To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets. 1637Bastwick Litany iii. 11 The word of God is both the begetter of faith, and the increaser of it. 1884Pall Mall G. 2 Aug. 4/2 Dr. Alfred Wright, the ostensible begetter of these very light and graphic sketches. |