self-bredadj.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iii. 40 Looke vp to that same only King,..Who being only one, selfbred [Fr. né de soy mesme], all other things begate.

1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iv. iii. sig. H2 There's a maine difference twixt a selfe-bred action And a for'st carriage.

1743 H. Stebbing Oxf. Young Gentleman's Reply 21 If preconceived Opinions do not prevent Examination, our indulged Passions and Self-bred Corruptions will.

1765 J. Lettice Conversion of St. Paul 13 See! appall'd Black Superstition, with her baleful Throng Of self-bred Fears.

1837 R. H. Horne Cosmo de' Medici v. iii. 93 In vile suspicions doth the devil paint Men's self-bred villany unto themselves; but they..Think it their neighbour's portrait.

1876 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 835/1 Imagined wrongs, and woes self-bred..Filled with black thoughts my aching head.

1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakespeare 167 [With reference to King John v. vii. 46: ‘Within me is a hell.’] It was self-bred, self-engendered.

1961 P. de Mendelssohn Age of Churchill 27 A narrowly circumscribed aristocratic world which for centuries had renewed itself almost exclusively from its own self-bred resources.

2016 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 31 Dec. 28 Is it [sc. Westminster]..just another excuse for our very own self-bred frailties?

1590 R. Wilson Three Lordes & Three Ladies London sig. B Of selfe bred soile, of London is her race.

1856 C. J. Hempel tr. J. C. Schäfer New Man. Homœopathic Vet. Med. i. 15 By breeding one's own horses, one not only saves considerable sums of money, but self-bred animals [Ger. die selbstgezüchteten Thiere] are generally healthier than those that come to us from foreign countries.

1894 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 6 Sept. 7/2 (advt.) For sale—in order to make room for self-bred young graded stock, seventeen choice milch cows.

1922 Bulletin (Electronic ed.) (Shepherd Dog Club Amer.) 20 Mar. Kennel Secretainerie..offers to American Shepherd Fanciers from self-bred litters some youngsters. Puppies of extraordinary quality.

1981 Brit. Homing World 18 Dec. 30/1 Mike Kelly took the major award of Best in Show with a self-bred grizzle cock.

2016 Land (Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Jan. The family buy Merino ewes to stock their places and join them to their self-bred Border Leicester rams.

1898 F. Darwin in Nature 27 Oct. 632/1 (note) I use the words cross-bred and self-bred to denote the offspring of cross- and self-fertilisation; we thus avoid the slightly obscure phrases cross-fertilised and self-fertilised seedlings which occur in [Charles] Darwin's books.

1908 Bull. Virginia Agric. Exper. Station No. 177. 23 In every case the offspring from the self-bred plants proved to be constant and uniform in heredity.

1959 Empire Cotton Growing Rev. 36 18 Self-bred seed from second backcross plants shows much less disturbance.

2013 D. Gordana et al. in A. Jean-Vasile et al. Sustainable Technol., Policies, & Constraints Green Econ. i. 2/2 In the fertility research of six corn self-bred lines, depending on five different nitrogen fertilizers, the recorded results showed that the effect of nitrogen is distinctive at a very strong dose of 100 kg ha-1.