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inborn, ppl. a.|ˈɪnbɔːn|
[f. in adv. + born ppl. a.]
†1. Of a person: Born in a place or country; native, aboriginal. Obs.
c1000Germania (N.S.) XI. 390 Indigena, inborena. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 371 The hills..were passable for none but the inborne inhabitants that knew the wayes verie well. 1627Speed England vii. §10 [They] put to the sword (almost) euery mothers childe of the in-borne Inhabitants. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. (1847) 476/2 Those old and inborn names of successive Kings. 1875G. W. Dasent Vikings III. 270, I would sooner have given her to an inborn man, said the Earl.
2. a. Of a quality, etc.: Born in a person, existing in him from birth; implanted by nature; innate.
1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 97 (Comment), Innative is alsmekil to say as inborn, or that quhilk cumis til ony person..throw thar forbearis. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 42 Whose inborne skil our want of witte controules. a1625Fletcher Nice Valour v. iii, Merit, manners, And in-born virtue does it. 1725Pope Odyss. xix. 383 He whose in-born worth his acts commend. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 11 With some inborn sense Of courtesy. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. vi. §1 (1879) 227 An intellectual instinct inborn in Man.
b. Of an attribute or condition: In or into which one was born; inherited, hereditary. rare.
1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. lxxxi, Bow'd to the inborn tyranny of years.
c. transf. Of a person: That was born such, or is such by nature; = born B. 1 b. rare.
1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xciv, Bequeathing their hereditary rage To the new race of inborn slaves. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 439 The Arab is, in a sense in which it can hardly be said of any European nation, an inborn gentle⁓man. 1895Westm. Gaz. 24 May 3/2 Every in-born artist has a natural method, like the song-birds of the air.
d. inborn error of metabolism: any disorder or abnormality that is due to a hereditary fault in the metabolic processes of the body, generally attributable to the lack or alteration of some enzyme.
1908A. E. Garrod in Lancet 4 July 3/1 Quite unlike that of the above metabolic diseases is the course of the anomalies of which I propose to treat in these lectures and which may be classed together as inborn errors of metabolism. 1909― (title) Inborn errors of metabolism. 1935Harrow & Sherwin Textbk. Biochem. xxviii. 716 The disease [sc. cystinuria], frequently referred to as an ‘inborn error of metabolism’ is rare. 1968Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xi. 24/2 Hereditary lack of the necessary enzyme, phenylalanine hydroxylase, leads to an inborn error of metabolism, phenylketonuria, in which phenylalanine..is transaminated extensively to phenylpyruvic acid... Presence of phenylpyruvic acid in the blood and central nervous system leads to mental retardation. |