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Beget vs Ingenerate - What's the difference?

beget | ingenerate |

As verbs the difference between beget and ingenerate

is that beget is to cause; to produce while ingenerate is to generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.

As an adjective ingenerate is

innate, inborn.

beget

English

Verb

  • To cause; to produce.
  • To father (rarely: to mother); to sire; to produce (a child).
  • To happen to; befall.

    • Quotations

    * , Genesis 5:3 *: And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: * {{quote-web, date=2012-02-01 , author=Kathy Gilbert, title=Pitching In, site=Chatter Chattanooga citation , passage=Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).}}

    Related terms

    * begettal, unbegot, unbegotten

    See also

    * sire

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    ingenerate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Innate, inborn.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime / That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

    Verb

    (ingenerat)
  • To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
    • (Mede)
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.
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