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ˈdead-born, ppl. a. Now chiefly dial.
a. Born dead, still-born.
c1330King of Tars 914 The child ded-boren was. 1483Cath. Angl. 93 Dedeborne..abortiuus. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage viii. xiii. 812 Children which were dead-borne. 1781Bland in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 357 The number of the children that were dead-born. 1840R. Bremner Excurs. Denmark, etc. II. 396 The dead-born and those who long wielded the sceptre, are laid side by side.
b. fig.
a1300Cursor M. 26500 (Cott.) Þe dedis..þat forwit ded born ware, Þai mai be quickend neuer mare. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 354 A Samian Peer..who teem'd with many a dead-born jest. 1738― Epil. Sat. ii. 226 All, all but Truth, drops dead-born from the Press. 1830Macaulay Southey, Ess. (1848) I. 222 The History..is already dead: indeed, the second volume was deadborn. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. viii. 247 Messieurs of the dead-born Brogiie-Ministry. |