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vagitus|vəˈdʒaɪtəs|
[L., f. vāgīre to utter cries of distress, to wail.]
A cry or wail; spec. that of a new-born child.
1652N. Culverwel White Stone in Elegant Discourse Light of Nature ii. 119 Thou hast not yet the strength a well grown Christian; well, but is there the vagitus of an Infant? 1825R. Hooper Lexicon Medicum (ed. 5) 1237/1 Vagitus, the cry of young children; also the distressing cry of persons under surgical operations. 192119th Cent. July 28 The various inspired articles..hardly went beyond the vagitus, the earliest cry of the new-born method. 1938S. Beckett Murphy v. 71 To go back no further than the vagitus, it had not been the proper A of international concert pitch,..but the double flat of this. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin ii. 47 He actually seemed to forehear the babe's vagitus. 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits iii. 31 My speech was to be nothing more than a vagitus, an infantile cry. |