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gravid, a.|ˈgrævɪd|
Also 6 gravide.
[f. L. gravid-us, f. gravis burdened, heavy (see grave a.1 (n.1). Cf. F. gravide.]
Pregnant, heavy with young.
1597A. M. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 2 b/2 Woemen when they are gravide with Childe. 1638Sir. T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 24 A carefull husband [sc. a dolphin] over his gravid associate. 1799W. G. Browne Trav. Africa, etc. xxi. 344 If the mother..become gravid. 1799J. Burns (title), The Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 344 They are gravid four months and a half. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti ii. 658 Gravid she grew with twins. 1867F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 51 Numbers of barbel..in a gravid state.
fig.1648–1702J. Beaumont Psyche vii. ci, Let The gravid Universe deliver'd be From pangs. Ibid. xvii. cxv, Resolving..to ease the fount Of her impatient gravid Eyes. 1873St. Paul's Mag. ii. 225 That grave and gravid journal the Lectern. 1882St. James's Gaz. 28 Mar., They are not merely gravid with ideas but have a plan to produce.
Hence ˈgravidness, gravidity.
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