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Definition of Misbegot
1. Adjective. Born out of wedlock. "The dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"
Definition of Misbegot
1. p. a. Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.
Definition of Misbegot
1. born out of wedlock [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misbegot
Literary usage of Misbegot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Phonographic Dictionary: Exhibiting the Correct and Actual by Elias Longley (1882)
"... Minimized misbegot Minimizing Miracle Miraculous Miraculously Mirage misbegotten
Minimum Misbehave Minion Misbehaved Minister-ed Misbehaving Ministering ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"A sorry, poor, misbegot son of the Muses, Ne'er mai r to rise. Add. to the Deil.
fj. The miry beasts retreating frae the ..."
3. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"Base born ; a bastard Whose child is that ? Oh! her's a poor little misbegot,
what I've a-got to ..."
4. The Names of Relationship in English: A Contribution to English Semasiology by Charles D. Campbell (1905)
"NED. misbegot: Sc. Yks. Som. Cor. Also in form misbegotten. = an illegitimate child.
w. ... 'Oh! her's a poor little misbegot, what I've got to keep vor ..."
5. Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought by Inazō Nitobe (1905)
"... profession of arms such rashness of conduct—what Shakespeare calls "valour
misbegot"—is unjustly applauded; but not so in the Precepts of Knighthood. ..."
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