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p. p. of Get.

p. p. of Beget.

p. p. of Forget.

Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." Shak.

Unjustly gotten. Spenser.

Begotten by one's self, or one's own powers.

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

Not gotten; not acquired.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

legitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

on with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. Only compound me with forgotten dust. Shak.

" Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. Mocaulay. Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books tog…

That which is disclosed or revealed. Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten Macaulay.

ropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

d; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Shak. Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. Bacon. There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.

effeminate. Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor. Pinkerton.

The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.

Begotten by a fool. Shak.