English finish before Scotland ultimately could get started (10)

I believe the answer is:

engendered

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'started' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with creating things as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'english finish before scotland ultimately' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'eng' (abbreviation).
'finish' becomes 'ender' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The final letters of 'before scotland' are 'ed'.
'eng'+'ender'+'ed'='ENGENDERED'

'could get' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for engendered that I've seen before include "Gave rise to" , "Instigated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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