All 6 Uses of

beget
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding

"I don't know what is worse," cries Deborah, "than for such wicked strumpets to lay their sins at honest men's doors; and though your worship knows your own innocence, yet the world is censorious; and it hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe; besides, why should your worship provide for what the parish is obliged to maintain?†
Book 1

Very grave and good women exclaimed against men who begot children, and then disowned them.†
Book 1 *

As sympathies of all kinds are apt to beget love, so experience teaches us that none have a more direct tendency this way than those of a religious kind between persons of different sexes.†
Book 1

I don't know whether we must keep them; but I am sure they must have been begotten here, for the wench hath not been nine months gone away.†
Book 2

First then, I desire you to answer me one question—Did not I beget her?†
Book 17

Definition:

to cause something -- especially to make children