home-bredadj.n.

?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes sig. C.iiij Our king, in whose dominions they haue had safe refuge from the sword of their homebred enemy.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vi. 167/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Conserues of old fruits, forren and home-bred.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. F A mischiefe worse then ciuill home-bred strife. View more context for this quotation

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xvii. 12 Aswel the homebred shal be circumcised, as the bought seruant.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §2 The native and home-bred Greeks, such as Aristotle and Epicurus.

a1730 R. Altham Serm. Several Occasions (1732) I. viii. 156 Sin is an home-bred enemy.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 237 There are no home-bred agues.

1841 Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 58/2 All ideas of home-bred felicity are to be connected with trim hearth-rugs and burnished fire-grates.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiii. 307 Foreign invaders or home-bred rebels.

1906 Daily Chron. 20 Sept. 6/1 Not even an expert could tell the difference between home-bred and home-killed meat unless he were on the spot.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 76/3 One home-bred cow, which he was fattening for slaughter, had passed four tests in 13 months, but when it was slaughtered it was found to be riddled with T.B.

1992 PIC Aug. 33 (caption) Although Trevor wrote to us from Canada, he is a home-bred photographer having been born in Birmingham.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 60 Not onely the home bred multitude..but euen persons of the better calling.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 340 The young Home-bred Heir that thinks his Father's Mannour a considerable part of the World, is sent abroad to see more of it.

1759 S. Johnson Idler 24 Mar. 89 A story..which will strike a home-bred Citizen.

1827–48 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 520 Home-bred wits are like home-made wines, sweet, luscious, spiritless, without body, and ill to keep.

1895 R. Buchanan Effie Hetherington (1899) iv. 58 Several other members of the local aristocracy..made acquaintance with the newcomer, insomuch that his rough attire and home-bred manners were temporarily forgotten.

1919 C. M. Andrews Pilgrims & Puritans iv. 83 The men who practised physic were generally home-bred, making the greater part of their living at farming or agriculture.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xvii. 23 And Abraham tooke Ismael his sonne, and al the homebred of his house: and..he circumcised the flesh of their prepuce forthwith.

1703 G. W. Magazine iii. 26 If our Letters were thus Corrected, a stranger, or home-bred, might learn as much English in a day, as otherwise in a month or more.

1755 ‘G. Cambrensis’ Proposals for enriching Principality of Wales 28 10,000 Home-breds, at 4l. a Bullock.

1805 J. Lawrence Gen. Treat. Cattle 72 Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, also have their homebreds, or random crossed breeds, all great favourites with the salesmen and butchers.

1839 F. Jeffrey et al. in Court of Session Garland xx. 94 While home-bred and blockheads their carriages ride in, Who can't tell where Leyden is placed on the Chart!

1896 T. E. Gordon Persia Revisited vi. 150 The choicest home-breds from the horse-farms belonging to the late Shah and his sons.

1929 Golf Illustr. Apr. 54 Before the month is out, America will have learned the fate of the team of ‘pure homebreds’ led by Walter Hagen.

1952 Observer 14 Sept. 8/2 The immigrants, with the exception of the Cabbage Whites, are as few as the home-bred.

1995 Times 12 Dec. 21/5 Two of her best home-breds were Moon Madness, winner of the St Leger at Doncaster in 1986, and Sheriff's Star.