Adjective

1. carried, supported.
   • 1901 - Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence

     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.

Quotations

• 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.

• c.2000 - David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II

  Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.