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ˈsea-born, a.
Born in or of the sea. a. Of persons, etc., chiefly mythological, esp. of Venus.
a1593Marlowe Dido iii. i. 763 Seaborne Nymphes shall swarme about thy ships. a1645Waller To my Lord Admiral 55 Like Neptune and his Sea-borne Neece. a1664K. Philips To Lucasia Poems (1667) 147 Eyes so sweet as these, No power that is Sea-born can displease. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 160 Learn what I heard the sea-born Seer relate, Whose eye can pierce the dark recess of fate. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 17 Sea-born Nymphs.
b. Produced by or having its origin in the sea.
1646Quarles Sheph. Oracles vii. 83 The Sea-born Sturgeon, and the broad-side Bream. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 121 Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. 1808Scott Marm. ii. xvi, If on a rock..Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 402 During all the unknown..geological ages in which these mountains of sea-born rocks have been slowly growing.
c. Of an island, etc. rising from the sea.
1726Pope Odyss. xix. 197 Ninety cities crown the sea⁓born Isle. 1817Byron Beppo x, That sea-born city [Venice] was in all her glory. |