Definition of "born"

In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I

If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, page 286

I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.

1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], page 61

I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.

1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major

“Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”"It . . seemed the right way.""That it most certainly is."And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."

1965, Frank Herbert, Dune‎ (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, page 118‎