Meanings
- uncountableCorn or grain from which bread is made.
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That which I drive at now is this; That Breadcorn, that brings so considerable increase by Tillage and Husbandry, would scarce be at all without it; for that which grows wildly of it self is worth nothing: but it being so wholesom and strengthning a food, that it should yield so plentiful increase, and that this should not be without humane Art and Industry, does plainly insinuate that there is a Divine Providence that intended to exercise the wit of Man in Husbandry and Tillage.
1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 60
Origin
- Middle Englishbred corn
- Englishbreadcorn
From Middle English bred corn, brede corne; equivalent to bread + corn.
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Finnish leipävilja
- leipäviljacorn or grain of which bread is made
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