释义 |
self-born, ppl. a. [self- 3 b.] Born of or originating from oneself or itself.
1587Golding De Mornay vi. (1592) 79 Selfeborne, and father of himself. a1644Quarles Sol. Recant. Sol. xi, And leave to morrow To beare the burden of her selfe-borne sorrow. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xv. Pythag. Philos. 580 From himself the Phœnix only springs: Self-born. 1845Bailey Festus 120 The self-begot, self-wedded, and self-born. 1875Bain Ment. & Mor. Sci. iii. xi. §7 The pleasure of the original or self-born feeling. ⁋In Shakes. Wint. T. iv. i. 8 ‘one self-borne howre’ = one and the same hour (see self B. 1 d); in Rich. II, ii. iii. 80 ‘self-borne Armes’ is of disputed meaning (some mod. edd. read self-born = indigenous). |