Both Uses of
beget
in
1984, by Orwell
- The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.†
p. 65.8
- All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination (artsem, it was called in Newspeak) and brought up in public institutions.†
p. 65.9 *
Definition:
to cause something -- especially to make children