home breedingn.
/ˌhəʊm ˈbriːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌhoʊm ˈbridɪŋ/ 1. Education or upbringing received at home or (in early use) in one's home country; an instance of this.
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society > education > [noun] > systematic education > education at home
private education1581
home breeding1665
home education1673
home-schooling1848
1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxxviii. sig. Aa I am first for home-breeding, in Universities, and Inns of Court.
1678 J. Gailhard Compl. Gentleman ii. 2 Having then gotten what a home Breeding can afford till a certain time,..Parents will do very well to send them into Foreign parts.
1712 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 3rd Pt. vi. 141 Some tell me home-breeding will ungentleman him, and others that Foreign Education will turn his English Blood into French or Italian.
1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 273 The attainments of Johnson were such as, notwithstanding his home-breeding, gave him confidence.
1839 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. May 170 The hearty affection and firm principle that a good home-breeding alone can give.
1865 J. R. Pretyman Home-training v. 157 Home-breeding produces of necessity none of that effeminacy of character, or of that want of practical talent, which has been set down as a result of it.
1909 Cent. Mag. Dec. 312/2 Extraneous influences may thwart the best ideals of home breeding.
2009 W. M. Cortas World I Loved xix. 121 Three charming girls whose home breeding had the breath of a liberal atmosphere but the values of a conservative society.
2. The action or activity of breeding an animal, plant, or slave in one's home or home country. Also: inbreeding.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > descent from common ancestor > inbreeding
home breeding1756
in-breedingc1842
homogamy1874
intermarriage1882
1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. xv. 341 Thus you will have a pair of Nightingales prepared in every respect for home breeding at the proper season.
1852 Wool Grower Feb. 168/2 The bucks were usually selected from the same flock, and this home breeding was continued, till the flock was nearly worthless.
1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern: North v. 90 There is no home breeding to any great extent.
1908 Dogdom Jan. 1246/2 If we are to give a real impetus to home breeding we must add breeders' classes to our larger shows.
1965 C. R. Boxer Dutch Seaborne Empire x. 285 Despite the ravages of cattle-plague, the losses were often more than made good after a few years by importation from abroad and by home breeding.
1997 G. D. Snooks Ephemeral Civilization vi. 161 Slaves were available from other sources, particularly home-breeding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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