Full-boren

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Full-boren

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1 full-boren

adj. (1) in a physical sense, fully formed and living at birth:--Ic gonge mid cwican cilde, nalæs mid cwellendum, mid fulborenum, nalæs mid fǽgan, Lch. iii. 66, 29. Ðá wíf ðe ðá geeácnodan bearn cennað ðe ðonne git fulborene ne beóð, ne fyllað hié nó mid ðǽm hús ac byrgenna conceptas soboles feminae si priusquam plene formentur proferunt, nequaquam domos sed tumulos replent, Past. 383, 35. (1 a) figuratively:--Ðonne ðǽm móde sió sóðfæsðnes on geeácnod bið, ǽr ðǽm ðe hit fulboren sié, Past. 367, 18. (2) in a legal sense, of birth that satisfies prescribed conditions, legitimate:--Mid eahta and feówertig fulborenra þegena (tainis plene nobilibus, Lat. vers.), Ll. Th. i. 228, 4. [O. H. Ger. ful-boran legitimus.] full-boren

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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