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new-born, ppl. a.
Also newborn, new born.
[new adv. 3: cf. MDu. nie(u)boren, OHG. niwiboran (MHG. niuwe-, niuborn), ON. nýborinn.]
1. a. Just born; newly brought forth.
a1300Cursor M. 1342 A new born barn lay in þe croppe. c1460Towneley Myst. xiv. 292 He shall neuer haue myght to me, That new borne lad. 1535Coverdale Matt. ii. 2 Where is the new borne kynge of the Iues? 1570Googe Kirchmeyer's Papal Kingdom iv. (1880) 45 The crying noise of Iupiter new borne. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xi, Harping in loud and solemn quire,..to Heav'ns new-born Heir. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 501 The Nurse⁓ling spare, Nor exercise thy Rage on new-born Life. 1764Burn Poor Laws 228 A Chinese, according to their laws, may cast his new born child into the river. 1801Med. Jrnl. V. 479 The new-born animal staggers in walking and standing. 1886A. Winchell Walks Geol. Field 316 The mother-fowl calls her new-born chicks.
b. transf. and fig. in various senses.
a1586Sidney (J.), To give the new-born letters both to death and burial. a1650Crashaw (J.), He saw heav'n blossom with a new-born light. 1781Cowper Hope 170 Nothing else can nourish and secure His newborn virtues. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Monday in Easter Week, The new-born rill Just trickling from its mossy bed. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 136 When rain fell upon this new-born land.
2. Born anew: fig. regenerated. Also absol.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxii. (Justin) 614 [He] mad hyme þane as to cryst a now-borne mane. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 34 So new this new-borne knight to battell new did rise. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1190 My shame so dead, mine honour is new-born. 1620Quarles Feast of Wormes (1638) 34 Once more the voice..Came downe from heaven to Jonah new born man, To re-baptized Jonah. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 296 These aged nerves with new-born vigour strung. 1768Wesley Jrnl. 5 May (1827) III. 310 The number of the new-born is increased.
3. absol. as n. A new-born individual; chiefly in the new-born (usu. with pl. or collective sense).
1879A. Jacobi in A. H. Buck Treat. Hygiene & Public Health I. i. 75 Landau's essay on ‘The Melæna of the New-Born, with Notices on the Obliteration of the Fœtal Blood-Vessels', proves that..but little attention has been paid to the subject. 1907Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 31 Aug. 775/1 Occurences of vaginal hemorrhage of the new-born are..rare. 1929R. Hurwitz tr. Bernfeld's Psychol. of Infant 2 The new-born is not capable of maintaining life for itself. 1937Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Child. LIV. 1215 Tetany of the new-born..may occur at any time during the neo⁓natal period. 1968Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxxix. 6/2 The distribution and amount of brown fat in the newborn varies among different species. 1974Nature 6 Dec. 514/3 A doubtful study..indicating that newborns can orient visually to a voice source in space. |