单词 | self-born |
释义 | self-bornadj. 1. Of a person or other being: born of himself or herself. Of an object, attribute, condition, idea, etc.: generated by or originating from the person or thing possessing it. N.E.D. (1911) interpreted quot. a1616 as showing one self at self pron., adj., n., and adv. Phrases 1, but given that the speaker is Time, the father of the Hours in Greek mythology, most modern editors of Shakespeare interpret it as showing this sense. There may be a play on words with borne adj.1 2 in this quot. and in quot. a1644. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [adjective] > born > of self self-born1587 self-bred1587 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 90 Selfeborne [Fr. nay de soy mesmes], and father of himself. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. i. 8 Time. It is in my powre..in one selfe-borne howre To plant, and ore-whelme Custome. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Soliloquy xi. 55 And leave to morrow To beare the burden of her selfe-borne sorrow. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 525 From himself the Phœnix only springs: Self-born [L. seque ipsa reseminet]. 1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius 161 That self-born principle, whence springs The grand, primæval origin of things! 1802 J. Bidlake Youth 27 O'er all our ills a self-born radiance sheds. 1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 280 The pleasure of the original, or self-born feeling. 1912 L. Lawton Empires of Far East I. iv. xxiii. 651 Sakyamuni is the self-born Buddha, begotten before all worlds. 1972 Stud. Philol. 69 316 He must be true, not to her exactly, but to his self-born image of love. 2011 Hudson Rev. 64 272 Poor scuffling, self-born love, I wish I had better. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective] inbornc1000 theodiscc1000 i-cundeOE landisha1300 kindc1325 denizen1483 kindly born1483 native1488 naturally born1523 naturala1533 home-bred?1560 natural1574 home-born1577 homeling1577 natural-born1583 land-born1589 self-bred1590 self-born1597 indigene1598 land-breda1599 vernaculous1606 kindly1609 inbred1625 terrigenist1631 native-born1645 indigenous1646 indigenary1651 indigenital1656 aboriginal1698 own-born1699 indigenal1725 homegrown1737 terrigenous1769 indigenate1775 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iii. 80 Bar. What prickes you on, To..fright our natiue peace with selfeborne armes? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1587 |
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