bournebournn.²

Brit.

/bɔːn/, U.S.

/bɔrn/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s borne.

Etymology: Early modern English borne, < French borne (formerly occasionally bourne ), apparently = Old French bodne , bone , boune (see bound n.¹). In English in Lord Berners, and in Shakespeare (seven times), then apparently not till 18th cent.; the modern use being due to Shakespeare, and in a large number of cases directly alluding to the passage in Hamlet. Confused in spelling with bourn n.¹(The history of borne in French is uncertain; Littré suggests that it arose from the later bone, boune by the intercalation of r; Diez supposed a substitution of r for d in the earlier bodne; M. Paul Meyer says ‘bodne, bosne, borne is an admissible phonetic series, the more so that Provençal has a diminutive bózola, and a noun bozolar (borner, limiter)’.)

†1. A boundary (between fields, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary

thresholdeOE

randeOE

markeOE

mereOE

limiting1391

march1402

confrontc1430

bourne1523

limity1523

mereing1565

mark-mere1582

ring1598

land-mere1603

limit1655

field boundary1812

landimere1825

section-line1827

wad1869

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 257 All..places, lyenge bitwene the boundes and bournes folowynge.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 257 The foresayd boundes and bornes in the article of Calais.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 158 Borne, bound of Land, Tilth, Vineyard none.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 136 One that fixes No borne 'twixt his and mine.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Borns, Limits, bounds, etc. Shakes.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 679 Oft as in their course They came to the field's bourn.

2. A bound, a limit. (Approaching 3.) archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]

goalc1350

bounda1387

list1389

finea1400

frontier1413

enda1425

limit1439

buttal1449

headroom1462

band1470

mete?1473

buttinga1475

bounder1505

pale?a1525

butrelle1546

scantlet1547

limesa1552

divisec1575

meta1587

line1595

marginc1595

closure1597

Rubicon1613

bournea1616

boundary1626

boundure1634

verge1660

terminary1670

meta1838

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 16 Ile set a bourne how farre to be belou'd.

1727 J. Thomson Summer 16 From the far Bourn Of slow-pac'd Saturn.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Concl. 163 A shout..rang Beyond the bourn of sunset.

1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. vii. 312 A sphere above the natural, and within the bourn of immortality.

a. The limit or terminus of a race, journey, or course; the ultimate point aimed at, or to which anything tends; destination, goal. (Somewhat poetic: often figurative.) [Shakespeare's famous passage probably meant the ‘frontier or pale’ of a country; but has been associated contextually with the goal of a traveller's course.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > ultimate

sum1340

determination1646

bournec1800

ultimatum1804

finis1850

finality1859

telos1904

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 81 The dread of something after death, The vndiscouer'd country, from whose borne No trauiler returnes.

1761 F. Fawkes tr. Catullus Sparrow in Orig. Poems & Transl. 34 Dismal regions! from whose bourn No pale travellers return.]

c1800 H. K. White On Prayer in Rem. (1839) 433 The means employed to arrive at the bourn of our desires.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) ii. 44 The selected bourne Was now an Island.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vi. 212 Perhaps, even of the life of Pindar's time, Pompeii was the inevitable bourne.

b. Realm, domain. [A misunderstanding of the passage in Hamlet.] Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > area over which jurisdiction exercised

land and ledeOE

regimenta1393

franchisea1400

right?a1400

obeisance1419

liberty?1435

English palec1453

palec1453

English palea1549

judgement1617

command1621

commandment1632

bourne1818

Crown land1849

rulership1882

overseas territory1900

1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 106 A thousand Powers keep religious state, In water, fiery realm, and airy bourne.

1827 W. M. Praed Poems (1865) II. 218 No dame should come To be the queen of his bourn.

Compounds

In combination bourne-stone (formed by Carlyle from French borne), a boundary stone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > stone

hoar-stone847

honeeOE

merestoneOE

markstoneOE

march stone1519

shire-stone1536

dool-stone1580

bound-stone1602

witter stone1615

metestone1617

bounder-stone1635

bourne-stone1837

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iii. 25 Chaumette,..one already descries:..on bourne-stone of the thoroughfares.

1858 C. Kingsley St. Maura 56 As you preached and prayed From rock and bourne-stone.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bourne
释义	bournebournn.² Brit. /bɔːn/, U.S. /bɔrn/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s borne. Etymology: Early modern English borne, < French borne (formerly occasionally bourne ), apparently = Old French bodne , bone , boune (see bound n.¹). In English in Lord Berners, and in Shakespeare (seven times), then apparently not till 18th cent.; the modern use being due to Shakespeare, and in a large number of cases directly alluding to the passage in Hamlet. Confused in spelling with bourn n.¹(The history of borne in French is uncertain; Littré suggests that it arose from the later bone, boune by the intercalation of r; Diez supposed a substitution of r for d in the earlier bodne; M. Paul Meyer says ‘bodne, bosne, borne is an admissible phonetic series, the more so that Provençal has a diminutive bózola, and a noun bozolar (borner, limiter)’.) †1. A boundary (between fields, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary thresholdeOE randeOE markeOE mereOE limiting1391 march1402 confrontc1430 bourne1523 limity1523 mereing1565 mark-mere1582 ring1598 land-mere1603 limit1655 field boundary1812 landimere1825 section-line1827 wad1869 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 257 All..places, lyenge bitwene the boundes and bournes folowynge. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 257 The foresayd boundes and bornes in the article of Calais. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 158 Borne, bound of Land, Tilth, Vineyard none. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 136 One that fixes No borne 'twixt his and mine. View more context for this quotation 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Borns, Limits, bounds, etc. Shakes. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 679 Oft as in their course They came to the field's bourn. 2. A bound, a limit. (Approaching 3.) archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] goalc1350 bounda1387 list1389 finea1400 frontier1413 enda1425 limit1439 buttal1449 headroom1462 band1470 mete?1473 buttinga1475 bounder1505 pale?a1525 butrelle1546 scantlet1547 limesa1552 divisec1575 meta1587 line1595 marginc1595 closure1597 Rubicon1613 bournea1616 boundary1626 boundure1634 verge1660 terminary1670 meta1838 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 16 Ile set a bourne how farre to be belou'd. View more context for this quotation 1727 J. Thomson Summer 16 From the far Bourn Of slow-pac'd Saturn. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Concl. 163 A shout..rang Beyond the bourn of sunset. 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. vii. 312 A sphere above the natural, and within the bourn of immortality. 3. a. The limit or terminus of a race, journey, or course; the ultimate point aimed at, or to which anything tends; destination, goal. (Somewhat poetic: often figurative.) [Shakespeare's famous passage probably meant the ‘frontier or pale’ of a country; but has been associated contextually with the goal of a traveller's course.] ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > ultimate sum1340 determination1646 bournec1800 ultimatum1804 finis1850 finality1859 telos1904 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 81 The dread of something after death, The vndiscouer'd country, from whose borne No trauiler returnes. View more context for this quotation 1761 F. Fawkes tr. Catullus Sparrow in Orig. Poems & Transl. 34 Dismal regions! from whose bourn No pale travellers return.] c1800 H. K. White On Prayer in Rem. (1839) 433 The means employed to arrive at the bourn of our desires. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) ii. 44 The selected bourne Was now an Island. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vi. 212 Perhaps, even of the life of Pindar's time, Pompeii was the inevitable bourne. b. Realm, domain. [A misunderstanding of the passage in Hamlet.] Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > area over which jurisdiction exercised land and ledeOE regimenta1393 franchisea1400 right?a1400 obeisance1419 liberty?1435 English palec1453 palec1453 English palea1549 judgement1617 command1621 commandment1632 bourne1818 Crown land1849 rulership1882 overseas territory1900 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 106 A thousand Powers keep religious state, In water, fiery realm, and airy bourne. 1827 W. M. Praed Poems (1865) II. 218 No dame should come To be the queen of his bourn. Compounds In combination bourne-stone (formed by Carlyle from French borne), a boundary stone. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > stone hoar-stone847 honeeOE merestoneOE markstoneOE march stone1519 shire-stone1536 dool-stone1580 bound-stone1602 witter stone1615 metestone1617 bounder-stone1635 bourne-stone1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iii. 25 Chaumette,..one already descries:..on bourne-stone of the thoroughfares. 1858 C. Kingsley St. Maura 56 As you preached and prayed From rock and bourne-stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see also also refers to : bournbournen.¹ < n.²1523 see also
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Compounds

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