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单词 menstruate
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menstruateadj.

Forms: Middle English menstruat, Middle English–1500s menstruate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin menstruatus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin menstruatus menstruating, ritually impure through menstruation (Vetus Latina and Vulgate) < classical Latin mēnstruum menstruum n. + -ātus -ate suffix2. Compare Old French menstrue (a1272 in an isolated attestation), French menstruée (1840).
Obsolete.
Of a woman: menstruating. Of blood: menstrual.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > discharge of menses > [adjective]
menstruatec1384
menstruousc1425
menstruant1646
unwell1844
menstruating1872
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Baruch vi. 28 Wymmen with chijlde, and menstruat, or in vncleene blode, touchen togyder.
a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxii. 10 Thei meekeden in thee the vnclennes of the menstruate womman.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 18 That welle of pyte that was and is opyne to the menstruat womane and synful man.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 860 (MED) To kille The rukul..A menstruate, vngird womman, vnshood, Vntressed, al aboute to goon is good.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 12 But þouȝ it be so þat alle þe smale lymes of a child ben bigeten of boþe two spermes, Neþeles to cloþen him wiþ fleisch..þer comeþ to hem menstruat blood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

menstruatev.

Brit. /ˈmɛnstrʊeɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɛnstrəˌweɪt/, /ˈmɛnˌstreɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: menstruum n., -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < menstruum n. + -ate suffix3. Compare menstruation n., from which sense 2 is perhaps a back-formation.Compare post-classical Latin menstruari (6th cent. in an isolated attestation; from c1200 in British sources (also as menstruare ); for apparently participial forms see menstruant adj. and n., menstruate adj.).
1. transitive. To stain as with menstrual blood. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain > stain with specific substances
ink1562
menstruate1660
iron-mould1694
1660 J. Cleveland On O.P. Sick in Poems, Orations, Epistles (ed. 2) 119 The reiking steam of thy fresh Villanies Would spot the Stars, and menstruate the Skies.
2. intransitive. To undergo menstruation or the menstrual cycle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > discharge of menses > discharge menses [verb (intransitive)]
menstruate1795
1795 C. Everett Inaugural Diss. Function of Menstruation 8 Some..writers have asserted that the following animals menstruate, viz. The Ape, the Cow.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 529 Has never menstruated.
1866 T. H. Tanner Signs & Dis. Pregnancy i. 8 Some few girls, however, menstruate as early as the 11th, 12th, or 13th year.
1890 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 19 368 My informants told me that the first three cicatrices were cut when the girl first menstruated, and consequently would indicate marriageableness.
1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 191 A ventriloqual twilight such as dwarfs and cretins enjoy when they menstruate.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 518/2 In the girls, the values..were not different between premenarchal girls and those who had been menstruating for some time.
1993 GQ Feb. 200/2 Alysse then went on from there to..speculate about a world in which men menstruated.

Derivatives

ˈmenstruating adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > discharge of menses > [adjective]
menstruatec1384
menstruousc1425
menstruant1646
unwell1844
menstruating1872
1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 60 Evil often results to a menstruating woman thus constantly exposed.
1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 593/1 The changes in the menstruating uterus.
1991 Whole Earth Rev. Summer 86/3 He casually mentioned that a menstruating woman has the potential to be more physically and spiritually powerful than anyone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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