borne
adjUK /bɔːn/ · US /boɹn/
Etymology From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).
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carried, supported.
- In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
- When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy Cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Rome Unvisited.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, canto III, page 46:
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- Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, section II:
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airborne, bloodborne, carborne, cartborne, chairborne, fleaborne, food-borne, foodborne, heliborne, inborne, jet-borne, louseborne, mainsborne, milkborne, pipeborne, railborne, rocketborne, seaborne, seed-borne, seedborne, shipborne, skyborne, soilborne, spaceborne, springborne, tickborne, tick-borne, tick-borne encephalitis, trainborne, truck-borne, vector-borne, wainborne, waterborne, windborne