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misborn, ppl. a. ? Obs.|mɪsˈbɔːn|
[mis-1 2.]
1. Prematurely born; abortive. Hence, deformed or mis-shapen from birth.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 228 Gif cild misboren sy. c1230Hali Meid. 34 Ȝif hit is misborn..& wont eni of his limen. 1382Wyclif 1 Cor. xv. 8 At the laste of alle, he was seyn and to me, as to a mysborn child [Vulg. tamquam abortivo]. 1390Gower Conf. I. 192 A povere child..in the name Of thilke which is so misbore We toke. 1496Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) vi. iii. 234/1 They that be mysborn moost comonly they haue an harde ende. 1570Levins Manip. 172/35 Mysborne, obortiuus [sic]. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vii. xi. 817 It must either be transplanted, or else it woulde prooue out of course like a misborne thing. 1605Camden Rem., Languages 19 That which the Latines call Abortus,..they [the Anglo-Saxons] called Miss-borne.
2. Born of unlawful union; hence, base-born.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 42 Ah! misborn Elfe, In evill houre thy foes thee hither sent. 1624Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 204 Thou Lyer, and misborne Elfe of the Father of lies. a1641― Acts & Mon. (1642) 535 The mis-begotten, and mis-born changeling of an hereticall father. 1718Motteux Quix. (1733) I. 108 He wou'd not be allow'd to be a lawful Knight; but a Mis-born Intruder. |