baseborn

baseborn

Non-Arabs, of whatever racial origin, were of course baseborn, but so too were many Arabs who, for one reason or another, were not full and free members of a tribe.

b) Of lowly birth.

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  • Baseborn — Base born , a. 1. Born out of wedlock. Gay. [1913 Webster] 2. Born of low parentage. [1913 Webster] 3. Vile; mean. Thy baseborn heart. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • baseborn — index caitiff, ignoble, illegitimate (born out of wedlock) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • baseborn — [bās′bôrn΄] adj. 1. of humble birth or origin 2. of illegitimate birth 3. mean or ignoble in character or spirit …   English World dictionary

  • baseborn — adjective 1. of low birth or station ( base is archaic in this sense) baseborn wretches with dirty faces of humble (or lowly) birth • Syn: ↑base, ↑humble, ↑lowly • Similar to: ↑lowborn …   Useful english dictionary

  • baseborn — adjective Date: 1591 1. mean, ignoble 2. a. of humble birth b. of illegitimate birth …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • baseborn — /bays bawrn /, adj. 1. of humble parentage. 2. born out of wedlock; illegitimate. 3. having a base character or nature; mean. [1585 95; BASE2 + BORN] * * * …   Universalium

  • baseborn — Synonyms and related words: base, bastard, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, FALSE, fatherless, homely, humble, illegitimate, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, misbegotten, miscreated, natural, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, plebeian …   Moby Thesaurus

  • baseborn — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Born to parents who are not married to each other: bastard, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural, spurious, unlawful. See KIN, LAW. 2. Lacking high station or birth: common, declasse, declassed, humble, ignoble,… …   English dictionary for students

  • baseborn — adj. low born, commonly born, from a poor family …   English contemporary dictionary

  • baseborn — adj 1. lowborn, lowbred, vulgar, common; low, lowly, simple, humble, homely, homespun; plebian, proletarian, bourgeois; untitled, ungenteel, ungentle, unlanded; beggarly, poor, pauperish. 2. illegitimate, bastard, bastardly, base; misbegotten,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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