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Definition of Be born
1. Verb. Come into existence through birth. "She was born on a farm"
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Derivative terms: Birth, Birth, Birth
Antonyms: Die
Lexicographical Neighbors of Be Born
Literary usage of Be born
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"... of inducing premature labour equally cogent, although the degree of distortion
was so great, that a seven months child could not be born alive. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"In which the constitution of France differs from ours; for there, by their jus
albina- tus, if a child be born of foreign parents, it is an alien. ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"Yet quod in ea natum est cannot be proper, while it is yet in the womb ; nor can
the child first be said to be born, and then that the mother shall bring it ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Thus new citizens mny be born or they may be created by naturalization.
The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural born citizens. ..."
5. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1880)
"Thus, it may be born at an early period of gestation—it may be immature, and not
likely to survive—or, again, it may be born at the full period of gestation ..."
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