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new-found, a.
[new adv. 3.]
Newly found or invented; recently discovered.
c1496Serm. Episc. Puer. (W. de W.) b iij, [We take] paynted gyrdels of Spaynardes, newe founde hattes of Romayns. 1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 551 The conuersion of the Infidels..is a newe found argument. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 60 A couple of these perspectives, which shew the new-found motion of the stars about Jupiter. 1670Sir J. Vaughan in Phenix (1721) I. 415 Which were a strange new-found Conclusion. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xviii. x, Wished him heartily joy of his new-found uncle. 1781Cowper Expost. 6 Can..art confer A new-found luxury not seen in her? 1856Kingsley Heroes, Theseus ii. 189 ægeus his new-found father. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 303 They are the first to hail the new-found calf-god.
b. Of lands, islands, etc., esp. with reference to America or certain parts of it; hence Newfoundland as the proper name of a large island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) II. 25 Apuly, Afryke, and the newe fonde londe. 1527R. Thorne in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 253 They should come to the New founde islandes that wee discouered. 1588T. Harriot (title) A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. 1626Sir W. Vaughan Golden Fleece title-p., The Southernmost part of the Island commonly called the Newfoundland. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxxiv. (1713) 270 The Salvation of them of the New-found World upon Earth, I mean those of America. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 137 Various opinions and conjectures were formed concerning the new-found countries. 1807J. Barlow Columb. i. 6 Who sway'd a moment..Iberia's sceptre on the new found shore. |