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bedside|ˈbɛdˌsaɪd|
[Coalesced from bed's side in prep. phrases like ‘by the beddes side’ = beside the bed; thus not a true compound.]
a. Place or position by a bed: used in various phrases, to signify proximity to, companionship with, or attendance on, one confined to bed.
c1374Chaucer Parl. Foules 99 Right at my beddis side. c1435Torr. Portugal 1364 The damyselle..Set hym on her bed-syde. c1440Gesta Rom. i. 3 My wif..wolle hyde his body by hire beddys syde. 1628Earle Microcosm. 11 A meer dull Physician; His practice is some business at bed-sides. 1713Swift Fr. J. Denny Wks. 1755 III. i. 145 Snatched up a peruke-block that stood by the bedside. 1752C. Lennox Fem. Quix. I. iii. viii. 176 Never-ceasing attendance at the bed-side of her sick father. 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. lv. 94 He instantly hurried to his friend's bedside.
b. attrib., as bedside book, bedside literature; bedside manner, the deportment of a medical man towards his patient.
1837Dickens Pickw. xxxviii. 416 A female servant came out..to shake some bed-side carpets. 1860F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing viii. 46 If a patient can turn on his side, he will eat more comfortably from a bed-side table. 1869Prentiss Stepping Heavenward (1870) xxv. 237 He was her ‘pet-doctor’, he had such ‘sweet, bed-side manners’. 1879C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum II. xxvii. 570 Poor Janet found the thing in the back of the bedside table-drawer. 1884Punch 15 Mar. 121 Lady Visitor. ‘Oh that's your Doctor, is it? What sort of a doctor is he?’ Lady Resident. ‘Oh well, I don't know much about his ability; but he's got a very good bedside manner!’ 1907Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Dec. 1845/1 The ordinary notion is that a good bedside manner consists of suavity carried to the verge of civility. 1920Cornh. Mag. July 63 Bedside Books. Ibid. 64 Bedside literature. 1949D. Smith I capture Castle i. ii. 12, I keep my bedside candlestick on a battered tin trunk. |