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单词 earth-born
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earth-bornadj.

Brit. /ˈəːθbɔːn/, U.S. /ˈərθˌbɔrn/
Forms: see earth n.1 and born adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: earth n.1, born adj.
Etymology: < earth n.1 + born adj. Compare earlier earth-bred adj. at earth n.1 Compounds 8b. Compare heaven-born adj.
1.
a. Of a person or creature: born by emerging from the earth.Frequently with reference to figures of Greek mythology, as the giants (see giant n. 1a) and the men who grew from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus (see Cadmean adj.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [adjective] > born > in or of specific place
earth-born1591
sea-born1594
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints sig. R3 Emongst themselues with cruell furie striuing, Mow'd downe themselues with slaughter mercilesse; Renewing in themselues that rage vnkinde, Which whilom did those earthborn brethren blinde.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 231 They had like the earth-borne brethren, wrought one anothers destruction.
1642 H. G. Englands Present Distractions 8 We have our selves unmade our own safeties like Cadmus earth-born brothers, striving to boast in one anothers destructions.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 403 Young turtles..are seen bursting from the sand, as if earth-born.
1799 T. Dutton tr. A. von Kotzebue Pizarro in Peru iii. viii. 70 Hercules strangled the earth-born giant Antæus.
1831 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 166 Lessing still towers in the distance like an Earth-born Atlas.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 36 Cadmus and his earthborn men.
1916 C. M. Doughty Titans iii. 71 A quiver-full then they outpour, of lightning darts, On Earth-born giants.
1967 Folklore 78 213 Prometheus, who brought the gift of fire to man, was an earth-born Titan.
1987 Classical Q. New Ser. 295 37 Saying that the Athenians were the descendants of earthborn Erechtheus, or even that they were earthborn themselves, would not normally indicate that the Athenians had been in Attica since time immemorial.
b. Of a thing: produced by the earth; arising from the earth.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > [adjective]
earthlyOE
netherOE
lowc1225
terrene13..
terrestre1340
temporalc1380
earthyc1429
terrestrialc1460
inferial?a1475
mundanec1475
mundial1499
earthish?1533
terrenala1555
terreal1598
terrestrene1599
sublunary1609
sublunar1610
mundal1614
temporarya1616
earth-born1626
terranean1653
circumterraneous1678
subcelestial1706
terraneousa1711
terrean1714
terrigenal1744
subastral1752
geotic1755
tellurian1786
worldly1812
telluric1813
transglobal1953
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xv. 321 The Day declin'd his Light: And Earth-borne shadowes cloth'd the world in Night.
1675 R. Leigh Poems 114 These Earth-born Fumes, which here arise, And trouble with their Clouds, the Skies.
1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxiii. 247 Earth-born fire was concerned... This was evident from three pits..with rough hills above them, formed, it was believed, by cinders from their volcanoes.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 15 Nor were these earth-born castles bare.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ix. 563 The serene depth of heaven..undimmed..by the black earth-born clouds, which roll so far below.
1928 Times 2 July 19/5 The white flowers..shine out more luminous in the dusk, like earthborn constellations.
2003 J. Craven Healthy Home 60 For its power to evoke nature, no material can equal earth-born granite, slate, marble, and other stones.
2. Born on earth, as opposed to heaven; mortal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > [adjective] > opposed to divine
fleshlyc1175
mortala1475
humanc1475
earth-born1596
1596 J. Davies Orchestra sig. C5 The richest Iewell in all the heau'nly Treasure..Is perfect Concord, th'onely perfect pleasure That wretched Earth-borne men haue euer knowne.
1655 H. Vane Retired Mans Medit. xi. 138 These therefore are distinguished from all the earth-born sons.., by their higher and more divine birth, as born..of God.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 360 Creatures of other mould, earth-born perhaps, Not Spirits. View more context for this quotation
1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane v. i Behold the vain Effects of Earth-born Pride, That scorn'd Heav'n's Laws, and all its Pow'r defy'd.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxlvii. ii. vi By all the Earth-born Race His Honours be express'd.
1796 T. Holcroft Man of Ten Thousand iv. ix. 60 Oh you miserable mortal! You earth-born booby!
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 548 He represented both gods and heroes as having been mere earthborn men..deified or heroified after death.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare 227 A living god-garland of the noblest earth-born brothers and love-worthiest heaven-born sister.
1902 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 6 311 Out of their connection with earth-born women are born men of extraordinary physical development.
1974 Jrnl. Arabic Lit. 5 68 Almustafa and Christ, who in Gibran's reckoning are earth-born Gods.
2001 H. Bacon in R. Faggen Cambr. Compan. Robert Frost iv. 85 Pentheus..is only earth-born. His ascent to heaven and back results not in a second birth but in being torn apart by Maenads.
3. Chiefly poetic. Of humble rather than royal or noble birth. Cf. earthy adj. 4. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective]
low-bornc1275
ungentlec1374
unnoblea1382
bastardly1552
baseborn1553
ingenerous1621
lowly born1623
earth-born1630
unpedigreed1787
birthless1817
unaristocratic1841
disconnected1847
pedigreeless1859
1630 J. Makluire Buckler of Bodilie Health 124 For one lawfully begotten, and truely nobilitate, by vertue there be twentie earth borne bastards, new startvps, by the excrements of their mother the earth.
1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes Paraphr. ii. xlix. 90 Heare, O ye people all, this lore, all in the world that dwell; Earth-borne and noble, rich and poore, together hearken well.
1707 E. Smith Phædra & Hippolitus (1793) i. ii. 594 Earth-born Lycon may ascend the throne.
1731 D. Mallet Eurydice iv. ii. 57 Off, base slaves. Dare ye, dare earth-born peasants violate, With your rude touch, the majesty of kings?
1957 S. Plath Coll. Poems (1981) 71 Sick of their ruler's godling airs, In one body those earthborn commoners Rose up and put royal nerves to the rack.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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