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offspringn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: off adv., spring v.1 Etymology: < off adv. + spring v.1: see etymological note at of- prefix. 1. the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively OE Agreement between Abbot Wulfric & Ealdred (Sawyer 1455) in S. E. Kelly (1995) 118 Þis sy gedon for Siferð, & for his ofsprincg. OE Ælfric (Laud) 21 Eall heora ofsprinc [c1175 Bodl. ofspryng] þe him of com. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 16446 Þatt all hiss offspring shollde ben. To drifenn & to skeȝȝredd. Inn all þiss middell ærd. a1300 in R. Morris (1872) 142 We beoþ alle his of-sprung. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 981 Hii wende to scottes..þat hir..lene hom wimmen þat hii miȝte hor ospring [v.rr. ofpryng, osspringe] eche so. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 24 (MED) Whare Iacob þe patriarc and his offspring dwelt. a1450 (1885) 498 (MED) Both hym and his ospring, To pyne I putte þame all for-thy. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil (1554) iv. sig. Aiv Of Goddish race some ofspryng should he be. 1584 (new ed.) i. xii. 14 Any of his sonnes or ofspring. 1593 R. Hooker i. v. 57 That which cannot hereunto [sc. to eternal existence] attain personally, doth seeke to continue it selfe another way, that is by offspring and propagation. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi 187 Not onely a mother of a numerous off-spring, but also likely to be shortly a grand-mother. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal x. 213 To the Gods alone Our future Offspring, and our Wives are known. 1712 R. Steele No. 263. ⁋1 The Son endeavouring to appear the worthy Offspring of such a Father. 1770 O. Goldsmith 168 To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies. 1823 11 Jan. 1/5 As all genteel people stay from church in the afternoon, you will of course do so; however,..send your children; this..will evince your care in instructing your offspring in manners. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs 820 In the variety-hybrids [of plants]..some of the non-essential characters of the parents sometimes present themselves in the offspring uncombined side by side. 1881 J. Owen I. 446 The modern hereditarian regards himself as the offspring mentally as well as physically of a long line of ancestors. 1929 20 192 Rex rabbits produce only rex offspring when bred with each other. 1989 15 July 68/3 Whether or not a gene carries a mutation is determined randomly, except that each offspring can have no more than one mutation. 2000 D. M. Buss in M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson 11 Women who selected men who were able to invest resources in them and their offspring would have been at a tremendous advantage. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring 1548 f. ccxxxvii The erle of Richemond, one of the ofsprynges, of the bloud of kyng Henry the sixte. 1592 W. Warner (rev. ed.) vii. xxxiv. 147 Nor can Æneas Off-springs now of Orphansie complaine. 1646 Sir T. Browne iii. xii. 134 The off-springs of sensible creatures and prolifications descending from double originalls. View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne (1675) 300 As the Woman was the Glory of man, so were their Off-springs the Glory of both. 1686 R. Plot viii. 277 The Naturalists took care to transmit to Posterity the birth-places..of all numerous Off-springs. 1756 W. Toldervy IV. 209 The widows, and the offsprings of the poorer, the indigent clergy. 1808 I. 73 How much do these beloved offsprings add to our love and our happiness! 1814 Forgery iii. ii, in J. Galt I. 474 The joyful promise of an off~spring from thee. 1912 ‘Saki’ iv. 56 Fate had endowed her with a son; in limiting the endowment to a solitary offspring Fate had certainly shown a moderation. 1977 27 Oct. 13/4 Most want to see the language thriving, and they do all they can to encourage their off-springs to learn Welsh. the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else 1596 E. Spenser (1933) ii. x. 69 At last, quite rauisht with delight, to hear the royall offspring of his natiue land, cryde out. 1695 T. Tryon (ed. 2) iii. 27 Man..is an Abridgment or Epitome thereof [the World], or if you please, its Son, or Off-Spring. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil 69 And there Euphrates her soft Off-spring Arms. View more context for this quotation a1839 W. M. Praed (1864) II. 300 Beautiful Athens, we will weep for thee; For thee and for thine offspring! 1939 D. B. W. Lewis iii. 40 When one of these..offsprings of the Ghetto bursts his way out,..he rejoices and exults. 1945 R. Hargreaves 56 Rome had failed to save one of its children, and even if that mauvais sujet had been guilty of recusancy, in the offspring's downfall the parent was no less undone. 1993 (Nexis) 12 May 4 She still visits India but decided to make a commitment to her new country by becoming a citizen... ‘I feel like an offspring of America and India.’ †2. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] ?a1300 (a1250) (Digby) (1907) 198 (MED) Louerd, ich am daui, þe king, Þat boren was of þin ofspring. a1350 (a1250) (Harl.) (1907) 20 So wes seid to davyd þe kyng, þat wes of christes oune ofspryng. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 13598 (MED) Þe neist men of his oxspring Did þai þan be-for þam bring. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich (1932) III. l. 16255 (MED) My Fadyr his lond hath ȝoven, parde, that be hym cometh of his ospryng. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. xijv The Frenchmen come of the same ofspringe that we do. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil ii. 24 I may not, I wyl not deny my Greecian ofspring. a1613 E. Brerewood (1614) xiii. 96 What if the innumerable people of..the huge continent of America, be also of the same of-spring? the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation a1500 (a1400) (Adv.) (1810) 48 Y-comen of hye ospryng. 1551 T. Wilson sig. Cviijv These vertues though their ofspryng be from God, yet tyme maketh them perfect, in the iyes of man. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1888) I. 67 That men..to the Godis sulde ascriue thair birth and ofspring. 1644 J. Birkenhead 4 All the armies upon earth were to deduce their offspring from that one Adam, by generation. 1698 J. Crull I. 3 The..Duina owes its name and off-spring to a Lake of the same Name. 1715 M. Davies 283 A great inlet into the offspring of those Deluding Antiquities. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively > at each stage of descent a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 11415 Þar þai offerd, praid, and suank, Thre dais noþer ete ne dranc; þus thoru ilk oxspring [Gött., Trin. ospring, Laud ofspryng] þai did. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay vi. 72 The begetting, ingendring & spreading foorth of al things from offspring to offspring. the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] a1500 (1939) 305 Succudry, Fellony..inwy;—Prid is the stok at thai grew in... Come neuir bot euil of thar ofspring. a1552 J. Leland (1711) V. 53 Wher as the very Hed of Isis ys in a great Somer Drought apperith very litle or no Water, yet is the Stream servid with many Ofspringes resorting to one Botom. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau 22 b/1 Having discovered and denudatede the Polipum vnto his roote or first offspringe and originalle. 1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in II. ii. 85 The fountaines or offsprings, from whence this diuersity hath taken her beginninge. 5. figurative and in extended use from sense 1. That which springs from or originates in, or is produced or engendered by, something; the product, issue, outcome, or result of something. Frequently with of. the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product 1573 R. Lever iv. vii. 161 An offspring is properly taken, eyther foir a nowne adiectiue deriued of a nowne substantiue: or for the aduerbe yt groweth (as it were) and springeth therof. 1610 II. Ezek. xxxvi. 30 I wil multiplie the fruite of the tree, and the offsprings of the filde. 1652 T. Urquhart 55 From whose brains have..issued offsprings every whit as con[si]derable, with parturiencie for greater births. 1749 D. Hartley ii. iii. §1. 200 Almost all Kinds of Vice are the Excesses and monstrous Offsprings of Natural Appetites. 1769 H. Brooke IV. xvii. 301 Our spirits are the offsprings of his divine Spirit. 1801 S. Owenson Hawthorn Tree in 88 Nor yet unprofitably gay, These offsprings of the genial May, For housewives..preserve their essence. 1814 Forgery iii. ii, in J. Galt I. 465 These dark engender'd looks,..offsprings of detestable despair. 1957 M. A. Jeeves i. 13 Some of the more lugubrious sects' offsprings from the Reformation are also responsible for the eulogizing of ‘pie’ types of people. 1609 I. Lev. xix. 25 The fifth yeare you shal eate the fruites, gathering the ofspring, that they bring forth. 1666 R. Boyle 132 The prolific'd Buds that are the Genuine Of-spring of the Stock. 1669 S. Sturmy Ded. Accept..this Off-spring of some spare Hours. 1725 N. Robinson 209 Whey is the Offspring of Milk. 1738 11 Feb. (1739) II. 13 It is already very easy to distinguish..the puny Son of a compound Entremets, from the lusty Off-spring of Beef and Pudding. 1826 J. Kent I. 4 The law of nations..is the offspring of modern times. 1856 J. A. Froude (1858) I. i. 69 The discoveries of Newton were the offspring of those of Copernicus. 1874 T. Hardy I. xxv. 280 The serjeant's vicious phases being the offspring of impulse, and his virtuous phases of cool meditation, the latter had a modest tendency to be oftener heard of than seen. 1954 F. G. Cassidy (ed. 2) viii. 188 Walky-talky (a portable radio..), and its recent offspring peepie-creepie (a portable television camera). 1973 J. Rex ix. 117 As Parsonianism developed, and as the attack upon it and its ideological offspring rumbled on. 2000 5 Sept. ii. 17/3 The third movement..is a godchild of the Largo from Bach's Third Sonata, the tiny concluding Presto the offspring of the E major Prelude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.OE |
