Definition of "borne" []

• A past participle of bear1. (verb)

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• "The label borne by the new Mixture is "_Fernande_," but as"
• "Opposed to it Gregory assumed the title borne ever since by his successors."
• "This observation led Professor Thomson to his doctrine of the dissipation of energy, which he formulated before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1852, and published also in the Philosophical Magazine the same year, the title borne being, "On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy.""