sired

There's another way in which a vampire can claim the name of Dracula - as the sign by which their lineage can be traced to the vampire who "sired" or embraced them.

Archive 2009-01-25 Toby O'B 2009

Does he mean "sired" as in the breeding term for animals?

Jackson Williams: Obama Bows, Conservatives Bitch, Reality Bites 2009

Only now, a civilian in a packed mass of civilians, did he recognize what a mighty personage he then was -- a cock of the walk, saluted, "sired," treated with deference.

The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

He told me who the brute was "sired" by, and was proceeding to tell me who he was "dammed" by, but I gave him to understand that I was competent to damn the horse myself, and should probably do it very effectually before I got to the battle-ground.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887

"I am sick of being 'sired' and 'majestied' -- my name is Custer.

The Mad King 1914

"I am sick of being 'sired' and 'majestied' -- my name is Custer.

The Mad King Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

The Bonfire of the VanitiesA few years ago, there was a whole series of movies, like Grand Canyon and Doc Hollywood, that involved innocent people whose lives were changed forever when they made a wrong turn off the freeway, all sired by The Bonfire of the Vanities, in which Tom Hanks found himself far from his Manhattan penthouse.

The movie plots that technology killed 2011

The parents, rather the separate human entities that sired these kids, behaved disgracefully.

Easy Come, Easy Go! Geddit? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Forty-four Republican senators vowed to block anyone unless and until they were satisfied that Congress would have real control over the corporation-killing, lefty jabberwocky sired by those scourges of economic growth, Senator Dodd and Representative Frank.

Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No Adam Levin 2011

Gary, a sturdy, silver-haired dairy farmer with 32 pairs of Angus-sired cattle of his own back home, fit the bill.

Bovine Intervention 2009