c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John iii. 16 His oon bigetun sone.
c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann (1895) I. 199 (MED) His awghene begetyne sone.
a1500 (?a1450) (Harl. 7333) (1879) 224 He is your lawefully bigeten sone.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay vi. 75 [Plato] calleth him the begotten Sonne of the Good.
1638 F. Quarles vii. 27 There was no Cave-begotten damp that mought Abuse her beames.
1667 J. Milton iii. 385 Begotten Son..In whose conspicuous count'nance, without cloud Made visible, th' Almighty Father shines. View more context for this quotation
1717 21 All Glory to the mighty Lord..; The Father, the begotten Word, And the proceeding Holy Ghost.
1781 J. Delap iii. 35 The cloud-begotten Centaurs fell.
1867 3rd Ser. 188 691 They must treat it [sc. the amendment], not, indeed, as their begotten, but their adopted child.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ III. v. xxxvii. 130 Many a carelessly-begotten child of man.
1954 R. F. C. Hull tr. E. Neumann ii. 43 Leto hides her divinely begotten children from the wrath of the hostile goddess.
2010 B. D. Peterson i. 60 The Father declared that Jesus was his begotten son.