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inbred, ppl. a. (n.)|ˈɪnˌbrɛd|
Also 7–8 imbred.
[f. in adv. 11 + bred.]
1. Bred, engendered, or produced within; innate, native, inherent by nature.
a1592H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 481 O sin-bred hurt! O inbred hell! Nor full, nor fasting, never well. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 206 Not onely the Sea, but also all other creatures..cannot..subsist without a natural inbred salt in them. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. Proem 2 Your inbred Curiosity, and love of Experimental Learning. 1738Wesley Ps. xxxvi. viii, The Pray'r is seal'd: We now foresee The Downfal of our inbred Foes. 1849Grote Greece ii. lix. (1862) V. 237 He exhorted them to show their inbred superiority as Dorians.
β1627Hakewill Apol. iii. iv. (R.), To be wise, that is, to search the truth is a disposition imbred in every man. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. iv. 67 This imbred heat is sufficient. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 125 Out of the imbred love that all men have for their native country.
†2. Bred in a place, native; in quot. 1625 as n. A native. Obs. rare.
1625Lisle Du Bartas, Noe 100 The old Britton, the naturall Inbred of the country, was constrained to forsake it. 1638F. Junius Paint. of Ancients Ded. A iij, This translation befitteth rather the native fluency of one in-bred.
3. (Properly in-bred.) Bred in-and-in.
1892Stevenson Across the Plains 185 Sore-eyed, short-lived, inbred fishermen. |