borne

Etymology

From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).

verb

1. past participle of bear
   “Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.[…]” 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 21, in The Dust of Conflict

adj

1. carried, supported.
   In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night. 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence
   When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold. 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Rome Unvisited”, in Poems, page 44
   Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages. c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, section II