borneadj.1
/bɔːn/, U.S. /bɔrn/ 1.
a. As the second element in compounds forming adjectives with the sense ‘carried or transported by or across (what is denoted by the first element)’.Recorded earliest in waterborne adj.jet-borne, land-borne, satellite-borne, etc.: see the first element.
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1559 T. Gresham Let. 1 Mar. in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) I. 258 To understand perfectly at the customers' hands, at the same day, whether all the cloths and kerseys be entryed and shipped and water-borne. And being once all water-borne, then to make a stay of all the fleete.
1902 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 30 May 17021/3 The scenes on the arrival of the pigeon-borne letters..are familiar to the readers.
2007 Times of India 2 June (Capital ed.) 5/1 The motorcycle-borne youths are said to have confessed to snatching gold chains, rings, purses and mobile phones from different parts of the city over the past two months.
b. As the second element in compounds forming adjectives designating a disease or pathogen, with the sense ‘carried or transported by (what is denoted by the first element)’.Recorded earliest in airborne adj.blood-borne, food-borne, mite-borne, etc.: see the first element.
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1870 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 May 488/2 Increased attention has been directed to the interesting inquiry, Whether or not certain diseases are spread, and unhealthy conditions are set up in wounds, by the agency of air-borne germs?
1920 Miners' Safety & Health Almanac 1921 (U.S. Dept. Interior) 10 Among the more common spit-borne diseases may be mentioned influenza.
2003 Denver Post (Nexis) 15 Aug. b7 We have yet to adopt a national strategy to prevent and control today's emerging animal-borne diseases—illnesses that are increasing in frequency and vehemence.
2. attributive. Carried, endured. Chiefly with modifying adverb.
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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adjective] > capable of moral effort or endurance > endured or borne
borne1668
sustained1819
1668 D. Lloyd Memoires 104 As the sufferings of the Martyrs converted the world, so the generously born afflictions of Loyalty reduced the kingdom.
1836 Standard 1 Mar. To remove, then, the highly expedient though easily borne burdens which now exist in this country upon building places of worship, would just tend to assimilate our religious denominations.
1900 Glasgow Herald 2 Nov. 4/2 A pathetic story of a Gentle-woman's trying, but quietly-borne poverty appears under the title of ‘A Lonely Old Maid’.
2014 W. Flewelling 3rd Coll. Refl. Prayers 64 Complexly torn, my Lord, the borne anxiety of strife Ignites the commonplace in me.
Compounds
With adverbs forming adjectives corresponding to phrasal verbs at bear v.1, as in borne-off, borne-up, etc.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [adjective] > lifting > lifted
upahevena1225
ylyfta1387
lift1413
lifted1559
heaved1578
uplifted1597
borne?1611
uplifta1822
upheld1870
the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > relating to conveying or transporting > off or away
rapta1500
borne1878
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xv. 3208 In such a borne-vp kind, The Troians ouergat the wall.
1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 401 My whole pleading is about intimated & born-in assurance of his love.
1679 King in Spirit of Popery 23 The born-down and Ruined Interest of our Lord and Master.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 10 Blushing ‘Good Night’, rosy as a borne-off bride's.
2012 J. O'Meara Shakespeare, Goddess, & Modernity i. i. 36 The breakdown is as great, and as profoundly sensual in its turn, as the borne-up experience of love that had sustained it until this moment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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