misbegot

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ begot.

Adjective

misbegot (comparative more misbegot, superlative most misbegot)

1. (archaic) Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d
     To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
     Upon the head of valour; which indeed
     Is valour misbegot and came into the world
     When sects and factions were newly born:

   • 1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538,^[1]

     A Man defective born or misbegot

     To be therfor a Man deny wee not,

     Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can

     Of attributes essentiall to a Man.

   • 1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords,^[2]

     but who’s to say this love was misbegot

     with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots

Verb

misbegot

1. simple past of misbeget