forebegotten

adj

forebegotten

adj

Etymology From fore- + begotten.

1

Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.

[…] the doors She dashed to as she entered, crying out On Laius, long since dead, calling to mind His fore-begotten offspring, by whose hands He, she said, died, and left to his own seed Its mother's most unnatural bearing-bed.2012, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex:

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