Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eldest: an epithet used in law to denote the eldest son: as, bastard eigne.
- Belonging to the eldest son; unalienable; entailed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Law) Eldest; firstborn.
- adjective obsolete Entailed; belonging to the eldest son.
- adjective a bastard eldest son whose parents afterwards intermarry.
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- adjective law, obsolete
eldest ;firstborn - adjective law, obsolete
entailed ; belonging to the eldest son
Etymologies
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Examples
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Heidegger makes use of the 'own' meaning of 'eigne' to read the sense of the verb 'ereignen' as to make one's own appearance, to appropriate.
Archive 2007-07-01 enowning 2007
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Heidegger makes use of the 'own' meaning of 'eigne' to read the sense of the verb 'ereignen' as to make one's own appearance, to appropriate.
enowning enowning 2007
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Blodtankane, me el, kjem vaksne att og piner oss, som gav deim liv og fostra deim; og drykken, som me hev blanda eiter i aat andre, vert eingong uta miskunn bodin fram av rettferds hand aat vaare eigne munnar.
An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913
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Es kann dich nichts als nur Dein eigne Schönheit binden.
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Dieser Mensch, der von Gott recht und wohl geschaffen war, ist durch seine eigne Schuld in die Suende gefallen, und hat das ganze menschliche Geschlecht mit sich in diesen Fall gezogen, und solchem
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Dieser Mensch, der von Gott recht und wohl geschaffen war, ist durch seine eigne Schuld in die Suende gefallen, und hat das ganze menschliche Geschlecht mit sich in diesen Fall gezogen, und solchem Elend unterwuerfig gemacht.
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Where an affize of mortdancefier lies not for wmBer fmjne againft Baflard eigne.
The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many ... 1797
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Wie das Gestirn, Ohne Hast, Aber ohne Rast, Drehe sich jeder Um die eigne Last.
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Sedecias appointed by the king of 'Babylon to r eigne in Iuda, reejueFteth I eremias prayers* 4.
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'_er burgt also dafur wie fur seine eigne arbeit_' [he guarantees it accordingly as he would his own workmanship].
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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