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Quotation dates: 1381, 1562-1578
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Outborn(e, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: owt-. [Late ME. (Coventry Plays) and e.m.E. outborn; and cf. Inborn p.p. and ppl. a. 1.] Born out of an estate, burgh or country, of extraneous or foreign birth. — 1381 Douglas Chart. 30.
And we … sall mak [no] empediment … no distourbance … till our forsaide sistres thrid … no to hir tenandes tharof inborn no outborn 1562 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 9.
That all extranear beggaris owtborne of this towne be remowit thairfra a1578 Pitsc. (1814) I. xxv.
For among the Germanes it signifieth ane stranger, ane aliene, ane outborne or strange man, that is such ane one that hath ane contrarie language from theris
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