v. Obs. [OE. forðbringan, f. FORTH adv. + bringan to BRING.] trans. = bring forth in various senses: a. To bear (offspring, fruit); to bring to pass. b. To bring forward; to bring out, utter. c. To bring up, rear.
a. 971. Blickl. Hom., 37. Ealle þa wæstmas þe eorþe forþbringeþ.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 384 (Cott.).
| Þe dri [he] cald erth þat lauerd kyng, | |
| and bad it gress and frut forth bring. | |
| Ibid., 10721. | |
| Of rote of iesse þar suld spring | |
| A wand þat suld a flur forth bring. |
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 5868. Of sons and doghtirs þat þai forthe broght.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst. (Surtees), 1. After my wille this is furth broght.
b. c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Luke vi. 45. Yfel man of yfelum goldhorde yfel forðbringþ.
c. 1305. St. Edmund Conf., 569, in E. E. P. (1862), 86.
| He sat longe in þoȝte, | |
| & al laȝinge an englisch þuse wordes forþ broȝte. |
c. 1315. Songe of Deo Gracias, 5 ibid. 124. I seiȝ a clerk a boke forthe brynge.
c. 1425. Seven Sag. (P.), 3116. The childe was forthe broght.
c. c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 879.
| From a childe she him forth broght; | |
| Faire he was, and clenlie wroght. |
Hence Forthbringing vbl. sb., the action of the vb.; † esp. the carrying forth of a body for burial. Also Forthbringer, one who, or that which, brings forth or produces.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. i. (1495), 296. Though the worlde seme fader and forthbrynger and feder of bodyes.
1429. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 78. I wylle yat eu’y prest seculer beyng at myn entierment haue to pray for my saule and to be at my dirges and forthbryngyng j noble.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1548), 17 b. Saynt Kentigerne … had in lyke case a fayre mayde to his forthebrynger.
1584. Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (1884), 98. After my forth bringinge, the rest of my goodes to be devided equaly to my wif and Children.
1874. Pusey, Lent. Serm., 12. Much more will this week’s deadly sin, but for some mighty interposition of God’s grace, be the forerunner and forthbringer of the next week’s or next month’s deadly sin.
1889. Athenæum, 7 Sept., 321/1. The success of the book depending so largely upon its artistic forthbringing.
