单词 | childing |
释义 | childingn. Now archaic. The act of giving birth to a child; childbearing, parturition, delivery.In quot. a1425 also: the process of being born. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery teamOE childinga1275 birtha1325 childc1330 deliverancea1375 childbearinga1400 kindlinga1400 birth-bearingc1426 forthbringing1429 childbirth?a1450 parturitya1450 bearinga1500 delivery1548 parture1588 infantment1597 puerpery1602 exclusion1646 parturition1646 venter1657 outbirth1691 clecking1815 parturience1822 birthing1928 natural childbirth1933 a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 56 (MED) Þad..brut us blisse..Al þurut hire childinke. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11021 Elizabeth..was..Noght far fra childing. a1425 (c1400) Primer (BL Add. 36683) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 42 Thou toke sum tyme the shap of oure bodi, in childynge of [a1400 St. John's Cambr. and were boren of] the unwemmed vyrgyn [L. ex illibata virgine nascendo]. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 205 (MED) A woman hade vij childer at oon childenge. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 27 The throwes..of the bellie, that women haue in their childing. 1676 J. Harris Divine Physician ii. 45 Long travail, difficulty, and danger in Childing. 1748 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Treat. Infl. Sun & Moon ii. 42 Women who stop'd childing early. 1807 Athenæum Aug. 132 Zalzer marries Rodahver, who is likely to die in childing. 1896 W. Morris tr. Old French Romances 4 For every man ought to have pity of women, more especially of them that be sick of childing. 1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 115 But whatever the hazards of ‘childing’—as Shakespeare and the mountain people put it—the new baby itself is the most welcomed thing on earth. 1994 R. Miles I, Elizabeth (2003) ii. xxxiv. 246 All knew the Queen might not survive her childing. 2010 M. Frazer Play of Piety (Electronic ed.) He would have come with us, but his wife was in the midst of childing. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 9 Þi wa wes waken þat tenne slep–childing-pine haues te nou picht. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28496 (MED) Womman ner hir chiltyng state. 1640 Inventory 28 Sept. in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1850) I. 449 It. 20 little smale peeces of childing lyning. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ix. 22 Her childing throws did begin to grow..and she was delivered of a goodly Boy. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. ix. 186 What great things would she not be able to accomplish at the Head of an Army, if her Childing condition did not prevent it? 1896 C. G. D. Roberts Bk. Native ii. 107 Mary, when the childing pain Made thy patient eyes grow dim, Of that anguish wert thou fain, Wert thou glad because of Him? 1917 K. Tynan Late Songs 76 The dear Bambino by her is laid, Joy is come to the childing-bed. 2003 C. McCullough Touch ii. iii. 288 The nursery had turned into a childing room,..in case Anna went into an early labor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). childingadj. 1. That bears or is capable of bearing a child or children; pregnant; in labour; recently delivered of a child. Now archaic or in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth childbearinga1382 childinga1387 puerperc1429 labouring1540 parturient1592 parturing1598 birthing1901 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 319 Þe oþer makeþ a childyng womman barayn. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 75 Chyldynge, or woman wythe chylde, pregnans. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 158/1 The childing or bearing woman, why maye she not be baptised? 1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet vi. 51 Most childing women goe a yeere..before they conceive with child againe. 1729 E. Strother Family Compan. for Health 174 Medicines..such as correct that Acidities in the childing Woman's stomach. 1800 R. Southey Battle of Blenheim viii, in Ann. Anthol. 36 Many a childing mother then, and new-born infant died. 1882 M. McDougall Lett. ‘Norah’ lvii. 299 I have heard of retreating armies stopping and hazarding battle, rather than forsake a childing woman in her extremity. 1913 L. Abercrombie Deborah i. 7 Or with a childing wife Brought wrongly to her time. 2010 J. Thomas Curiosity (2011) xviii. 218 Molly swore Annie was childing, but it was hard to tell for the basket. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] bearinglOE fruitfula1300 plenteousc1325 fructuousa1382 birthful?c1475 fertile1481 broodya1522 yielding1556 foisonous1570 procreant1588 generative1597 yieldy1598 childing1600 seedful1605 thankful1610 foisonable1613 prolifical1615 fecundous1630 feracious1637 prolific1653 fetiferous1654 floriferous1656 productive1672 fœtant1678 spawning1682 uberousa1706 populous?1789 productible1830 grateful1832 resultful1833 genetic1838 tumid1840 polyphorous1858 generant1875 proliferent1920 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 112 The childing Autumne. View more context for this quotation 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. xix. 111 By him [sc. Saturn]..Childing Tellus beares. 3. Horticulture. Designating plants which produce younger or smaller florets around an older blossom (regarded as the parent); as childing daisy, childing pink, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > of or having florets > childing childing1629 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxii. 322 Bellis minor hortensis prolifera. Double double Daisies or childing Daisies... The chiefest variety consisteth in this, that it beareth many small double flowers, standing vpon very short stalkes round about the middle flower. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 64/2 The Childing Pink groweth..on upright stalks. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 255 Dianthus..Pink..Limewort. Wild childing Sweet William. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 19/2 Childing marigold. 1833 H. Bourne Florist's Man. 135 The blossoms of the Childing Sweet-William expand about eight in the morning, and close again about one in the afternoon. 1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) Childing Cudweed, Gnaphalium germanicum. 1956 A. M. Coats Flowers & their Hist. 31 Double garden daisies were grown in Elizabethan times, and also the ‘hen and chickens’ or ‘childing’ daisy, that had a number of smaller flowers encircling the main one. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 103/1 Childing pink, Petrorhagia nanteuilii, is a delicate annual, not recognised as growing in Britain until 1962. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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