hellbred

English

Alternative forms

hell-bred

Etymology

From Hell +‎ bred.

Adjective

hellbred (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Produced in Hell.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With fowle enfouldred smoake and flashing fire ,
     The hell-bred Beast threw forth unto the skies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hellbred”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)