sea-bornadj.
Born in or of the sea.
a. Of persons, etc., chiefly mythological, esp. of Venus.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [adjective] > born > in or of specific place
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1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. i. 763 Seaborne Nymphes shall swarme about thy ships.
a1645 E. Waller To my Lord Admiral 55 Like Neptune and his Sea-borne Neece.
a1664 K. Philips To Lucasia in Poems (1667) 147 Eyes so sweet as these, No power that is Sea-born can displease.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 160 Learn what I heard the sea-born [Gk. ἅλιος] Seer relate, Whose eye can pierce the dark recess of fate.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 17 Sea-born Nymphs [L. marinas..nymphas].
b. Produced by or having its origin in the sea.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > produced in or by sea
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a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) vii. 83 The Sea-born Sturgeon, and the broad-side Bream.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 7 Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xvi. 94 If, on a rock..Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 402 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV 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.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > rising from sea
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1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 197 Ninety cities crown the sea-born [Gk. περίρρυτος] Isle.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo x. 6 That sea-born city [sc. Venice] was in all her glory.
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