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单词 begetter
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begettern.

Brit. /bᵻˈɡɛtə/, U.S. /bəˈɡɛdər/, /biˈɡɛdər/
Forms: see beget v. and -er suffix1.; also Middle English begetare, 1500s 1700s begeter, 1500s begettor.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: beget v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < beget v. + -er suffix1.With the form begettor compare -or suffix. Compare Old English begietend person who obtains something ( < beget v. + -end suffix1).
1. The agent that originates, produces, or occasions something; a creator or originator.onlie begetter, only begetter: see only adj. Compounds.
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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.
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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).
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