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Inborn(e, p.p. and ppl. a. [OE. inboren, e.m.E. inborne (1599).]
1. Born in, native to, a place or country. a 1350 Facs. Nat. MSS. II. 14.
Alii husbandi et natiui [gl. in born men] dictorum abbatis et conventus 1381 Doug. Chart. 30.
And we … sall mak [no] empediment … no distourbance … till our forsaide sistres thrid … no to hir tenandes tharof inborn no outborn ?a1500 Steel Roy Robert 145.
Als ȝour fals king away culd pas Throw ane inborne tratour 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i. 108.
This horse … or other beast … is my … hamehalde cattell, or my inborne foister
2. Innate. c1400 Troy-bk. i. 319.
The noble king, that neuer mare Forȝhet wald his inborne [L. innate] gentryce 1513 Doug. Comment i/1.
Innative is alsmekill to say as inborn, or that quhilk cumis till ony person be thar natural inclinatioun of kynd throw thar forbearis
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