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单词 lying-in
释义

lying-inn.

Brit. /ˌlʌɪɪŋˈɪn/, U.S. /ˌlaɪɪŋˈɪn/
Etymology: lying n.1 1c. See to lie in at lie v.1 Phrasal verbs.
a. The being in childbed; accouchement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun]
childbeda1200
bend1297
gesinea1400
lying-inc1440
labour1472
down-lying1561
groaning1579
groaning-time1579
partion1656
crying out1692
accouchement1730
inlying1734
confinement1774
accubation1853
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 305/2 Lyynge yn, of childe bedde, decubie.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Gesine, a lying in.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 126 The women have good Lying's-in and the children are lusty.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 239 Those cushions your gossips stick with pins in hearts, lozenges and various forms against a lying in.
1842 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. (1847) I. 342 The Queen talked to me [Madame de Sévigné] as long about my illness as if it had been a lying-in.
b. attributive, as lying-in-asylum, lying-in-chamber, etc.
ΚΠ
1771 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 412 The British Lying-in-Hospital.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 190 A lying-in ward has been lately established.
1823 J. Constable Let. 24 Aug. in Corr. (1964) ii. 282 Miss Cookson is on a visit with another lying in sister.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxvi. 303 ‘The lying-in room, I suppose that means?’ said Mr. Bumble.
1861 D. G. Rossetti Let. 20 Apr. (1965) II. 396 Dr. Babington, head of the Lying-in Hospital.
1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 May 1101/1 Such sanitation..might be of service in lying-in institutions.
1895 Daily News 9 Dec. 3/7 A system of registration of all..lying-in houses.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 797 Statistics of lying-in hospitals show that [etc.].
1912 Q. Rev. July 60 A slight increase in the ratio of lying-in claims to the number of members... A lying-in benefit of 30s.
1964 D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy i. ii. 50 The years 1749–65 saw the founding of..the British Lying-In (1749), the City of London Lying-In (1750),..these in addition to the Lying-In Charity,..established in 1757.
1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 50/3 Villages which had a mutual aid or ‘lying-in society’.

Derivatives

lying-in adj. that is in childbed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective]
childbed1494
in the strawa1661
lying-in1711
sick1828
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Mar. (1948) I. 222 I..saw his lady sitting in the bed, in the forms of a lying-in woman.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 174 The sick, the delicate,..the lying-in.
1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xvii. 176 In lying-in or recently delivered women.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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