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Etymology

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From out- +‎ born.

Adjective

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outborn (not comparable)

  1. Moved, carried, or expressed outwardly.
    • 1870, George Field, The Two Great Books of Nature and Revelation, page 275:
      But before a man was created upon the earth, or ever a wild beast had roamed over its surface, the vegetable kindom was the highest form of spiritual life, for, as has been shown, they have no life of their own; but were then the outborn expressions of human principles in some pre-existing world;
    • 1879, Jean Story, Substantialism; Or, Philosophy of Knowledge, page 630:
      As all the vital germs constituent to the essential organism are endosmosed through the outer and inner and intermediate layers of the prime or "germinal membrane" of the vascular organism, the pores of which remain intact as the only ports of inbirth during their common development on our plane of sense-perception, they can and do become exosmosed, or outborn, by a reversion of their condition; that is, by having become expanded on the mature plane in the degree they were primarily condensed on the embryonic plane.
    • 2017, Donald Wallenfang, Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein-, page 165:
      Human nature is disclosed through the outborn spatial structure of the body.
  2. (dated) Foreign; not native.
    • 1897 March, W.D. Howells, “The Laureate of the Larger England”, in McClure's magazine, volume 8, number 5:
      It has its sublimity, that emotion, and its reason, though we cannot share it; and it is only in asking ourselves why a man of any nation, any race, should so glory in its greatness or even its goodness, when he has the greatness, the goodness of all humanity to glory in, that we are sensible of the limitations of this outborn Englishman.
    • 1959, The National Geographical Journal of India - Volumes 5-6, page 8:
      The figure for Kanpur was 52.7 while the percentage of outborn in Agra, Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow was 25, 21.3, 25.8 and 42 respectively. The percentage of outborn in the city has increased from 38. to 52.7 within the period of 50 years (1901-1951).
    • 1973, Cairo Demographic Centre, Urbanization and Migration in Some Arab and African Countries, page 233:
      The interval including the war period indicated a sudden rise in the demand for both lower and higher educated outborn husbands many of whom worked with the Allied Forces.
  3. (neonatology) Born at a different location than the facility at which treatment is available.
    • 1993, Renee R. Anspach, Deciding Who Lives, page 120:
      Moreover, the largest single group of infants who were outborn admissions lived more than fifty miles from the nursery.
    • 2017, Lisa McCarthy, Temperature Management of Outborn Preterm Infants During Inter-Hospital Transfer:
      Aim: To describe the temperature and thermal management of outborn preterm or low birth weight infants transferred after birth.
    • 2013, A. David Edwards, ‎Denis V. Azzopardi, ‎Alistair J. Gunn, Neonatal Neural Rescue: A Clinical Guide, page 99:
      At the tertiary hypothermia centres, cooling was initiated and maintained in all infants (inborn and outborn) by the Tecotherm mattress.
  4. Arising from or motivated by external sources, as opposed to being instinctual or intrinsically rewarding
    • 1923, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Biography of a Silver-Fox:
      When the shadows followed the sundown, Domino would go forth in his daily quest for food, just as all his forebears had done, prompted as they were by the inborn though called instinct, and the outborn from his cubhood's training.
    • 2000, Yogi, Art of Buying Freedom:
      Sometimes we do not want to do our outborn work because we find it boring, tiresome, and thankless.
    • 2017, Jane Yolen, The Great Alta Saga:
      Art is inborn, craft outborn.

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