misbeget

Verb

misbeget (third-person singular simple present misbegets, present participle misbegetting, simple past misbegot, past participle misbegotten)

1. To produce children from an illicit or inappropriate union, especially when such children suffer birth defects.
   • Therefore, Master Giles, buss the old folk, and thank them for misbegetting of thee, and ho ! you, — bring hither his mule !1869, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth
   • The greatest of all penalties; for what worse calamity can human beings suffer in the production of offspring than to misbeget?'1897, The Works of Xenophon
2. To create or produce something badly.
   • Take it; disperse the rich man's store ; Take it, and satisfy your need ; Then misbeget some millions more For our posterity to feed.1886, Frederic William Farrar, Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America, page 118
   • The lawyer's training, experience, and self-discipline can help to bring order into the frequently chaotic world of labor arbitration—to substitute reason and logic for the emotionalism and sloppy thinking that misbeget many arbitration proceedings, and sometimes the decisions as well.1970, The practical lawyer - Volumes 16-18, page 42