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native-born, a.
[f. prec. + born ppl. a.]
†a. Sc. Having a certain position or status by birth. Obs.
b. Belonging to a particular place or country by birth; sometimes spec. applied to persons of immigrant race born in a colony.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lx. 45 And he is maister natiwe borne, And all his eldaris him beforne. 1524Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 109 All begaris excep tham that ar natif borne within this tovne. 1572–3Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 207 Strangearis and native borne subjectis of the same.
1849Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 115 The word creole is used in Louisiana to express a native-born American, whether black or white, descended from old world parents. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 55 The hieroglyphic form of writing is difficult to be understood, save by a native-born Egyptian. 1894H. Parry Stud. Gt. Composers, Palestrina 8 The first musical work that was ever published and dedicated to a pope by a native-born Italian.
absol.1896Kipling Seven Seas, The Native-born. |