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self-raised, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
Raised by oneself, by one's own power; (of a plant) grown without human aid.
1647tr. Behmen's Clavis §54 The most Inward ground, wherein, the selfe raised [marg. Or owne arisen] will bringeth it selfe, by a reception, into somethingnesse. 1667Milton P.L. i. 634 That all these puissant Legions..shall faile to re-ascend Self-rais'd. Ibid. 858 Self-begot, self-rais'd By our own quick'ning power. 1852G. W. Johnson Cottage Gard. Dict. s.v. Rosemary, When the plants are self-raised on an old wall. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 6 The self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil. |