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1605 S. Daniel Trag. Philotas Ep. Ded. sig. A5 in Certaine Small Poems Late Elizas raigne, gaue birth to more Then all the kings of England did before.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 267. ¶6 Æneas's Settlement..gave Birth to the Roman Empire.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 201/1 In the north it [sc. the watershed] is found in a stretch of country, called the Height of Land, that lies between the White and the Green Mountains, and gives birth to the Connecticut and a number of smaller streams.

2006 Independent 11 Oct. (Extra section) 12 (heading) In 1966, a riotous extravaganza at the Roundhouse brought together the cream of British counterculture—and gave birth to psychedelia.

1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce cclxix. 228 Dartmouth and Plimouth [being] the best havens, this last being from a poore fishing village· become to be a fine towne, by reason of the Castle and commodiousnesse of the haven, and the rather it is to be mentioned, as giving birth to Sir Francis Drake, Knight.

1696 J. Seller Hist. Eng. ix. 181 This County gave Birth to the Renowned Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, who lost his Head in Queen Elizabeths Reign.

1851 J. Brewer & J. W. Barber Patmos 54 The Bishop of Cesarea in Cappadocia was allowed the precedence, because that city gave birth to Chrysostom, the most prominent of the Greek Fathers.

2001 E. Segal Death of Comedy x. 183 This lively town gave birth to the first ‘Roman’ playwright, the bilingual scholar Livius Andronicus.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 3) 53 He put a soule to our flesh, gave birth to the childe, nourishment after birth.

1688 Form Prayer for Safe Delivery of Queen sig. A3^v Thou hast..begun to repair our former losses, by renewing fruitfulness to the Queen, and giving birth to a Royal Prince.

1842 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 13 35 Greece perished—the Porch and the Academy were no more; and from that period until 1729, (when nature gave birth to one of her giant pioneers, known to men as Gottlob Ephraim Lessing,) aesthetics slept the long sleep.

2012 J. Ollhoff Japanese Mythol. 12 The gods gave birth to two people: a man, Izanagi, and a woman, Izanami.

1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations l. 266 Or (as it is in the Fable) as if Saturne did then become an Eunuch, and threw his masculine evidences into the Sea, to raise a Foam, which might give birth to Venus.

1691 P. Hay Politicks France (ed. 2) xiii. 157 This is more to be excused in French Women than in others: 'tis their due to be Mistresses; since they may Glory, upon better Title than the Lacedemonian Dames, that they give birth to Men, who are capable of rendring themselves, by their Valour, Conquerors of all the Earth.

1740 A. Hill Gen. Hist. Ottoman Empire xxvi. I, who was Priam's Wife, who first gave Birth To Hector, whose great Actions shook the Earth.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 49 His wife, then near the time of giving birth to an infant, fled into the forest.

1924 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 27 513 The stem-mother is always wingless and gives birth to living young parthenogenetically.

2015 Daily Mail 23 May 57/2 Mum-in-law might annoy you but she gave birth to the father of your children and deserves consideration.