1743 A. Pope (rev. ed.) ii. 356 A low-born, cell-bred, selfish, servile band.
1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ I. 39 Shall cell-bred wenches lift their pond'rous limbs..To flagellate my tortur'd body thus?
1849 I. Taylor i. vii. 162 He had played his part as a man of the world long enough to rid himself of those illusions which might have misled a cell-bred religious legislator.