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Born past part., adj.

Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth. "No one could be born into slavery in Mexico."

Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar. "A born matchmaker."

Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God."

Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. (Colloq.)

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"Born" Quotes from Famous Books

... Henry Guff. On the Day of his Birth the Wind changed and blew in another Direction, Apples fell off the Trees, Chickens went to Roost at Mid-Day. All Nature seemed to have been given a Jolt by the Portentous Event. For James Henry Guff was born to know all the Brands of Human Greatness. Destiny had put a Green Tag on him and ...

— People You Know • George Ade

... Bonham Carter—though intensely feminine, would have made a remarkable man. I do not believe there is any examination she could not have passed either at a public school or a university. Born without shyness or trepidation, from her youth upwards she had perfect self-possession and patience. She loved dialectics and could put her case logically, plausibly and eloquently; and, although quite as unemotional as her ...

— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... She can read and write—that is all. More instruction would, I am sure, have harmed her, for it would have confused her natural motives, without supplying any clear ray of mental guidance. She is fulfilling the offices for which she was born, and that with a grace of contentment, a joy of conscientiousness, which puts her high among civilized beings. Her delight is in order and in peace; what greater praise can be given to any of the ...

— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing

... To a person born and reared in the East, the Mississippi presents many striking features. Above its junction with the Missouri, its water is clear and its banks are broken and picturesque. After it joins the Missouri ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... saw the light in the year 1491. The family has been traced back to a grandfather who lived in the middle of the fifteenth century. This Jean Cartier, or Quartier, who was born in St Malo in 1428, took to wife in 1457 Guillemette Baudoin. Of the four sons that she bore him, Jamet, the eldest, married Geseline Jansart, and of their five children the second one, Jacques, rose to greatness as the discoverer of Canada. There is little to chronicle ...

— The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier • Stephen Leacock

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