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单词 parturition
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parturitionn.

Brit. /ˌpɑːtjᵿˈrɪʃn/, /ˌpɑːtʃᵿˈrɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌpɑrdəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌpɑrtʃəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌpɑrtjəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin parturition-, parturitio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin parturition-, parturitio childbirth, action of bringing something into being (Vetus Latina), offspring (5th–6th cent.) < classical Latin parturīt- , past participial stem of parturīre to be in labour (see parturient adj. and n.) + -iō -ion suffix1.
1.
a. Chiefly technical and literary. The action of giving birth to young; childbirth. Also: a confinement.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery
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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
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 116 The conformation of parts is necessarily required..also unto the parturition or very birth it selfe. View more context for this quotation
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. 51 She joyes in Woes, To have in Labour pass'd the Parturition Throes.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xix. 173 The lax and pliable state of a child's head in parturition..was compressed and moulded into the shape of an oblong conical piece of dough.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. iv. 114 Never shall I forget the interview between us immediately subsequent to her first parturition.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 436/1 Utero-gestation in the Mammalia is terminated by parturition or the birth of the young.
1897 H. Wing Milk & its Products ii. 18 The first milk secreted by the animal after parturition is quite distinct in composition.
1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) viii. 191 Colostrum, the material secreted by the mammary gland just before and after parturition.
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 8 Mother's was a prolix and generally rather inelegant parturition.
2000 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 130 266 If the imagery of Diotima's speech is carefully analyzed, it can be seen that the entire process of procreation takes place within the lover: arousal, begetting, pregnancy, and parturition.
b. That which is born or produced; offspring. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product
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fodmea1325
burgeona1340
progenya1393
geniture?1440
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bantling1593
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1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory viii. 117 The ardency of love, which we have to any new parturition, is by some space of time abated, after that we have diverted to some other imployment.
2. figurative. The action or an act of bringing something into being, esp. of a literary or imaginative nature; (also) the process of coming into being, esp. when accompanied by a lot of effort.
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1810 F. Jeffery in Edinb. Rev. 16 293 If Mr. Scott will only vary his subjects a little more, indeed, we think we might engage to insure his own reputation against any material injury from their rapid parturition.
1826 W. Hazlitt Plain Speaker I. i. 25 He is swelling and turgid..; filling his fancy with fumes and vapours in the pangs and throes of miraculous parturition, and bringing forth only still births.
1846 J. H. Frere Fragment in Wks. (1872) I. 292 The terms of parturition and of birth Express the first development of earth.
1882 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 325 Guesses of newer, better worlds, their mighty parturition Mocking..me.
1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xiii. 142 No friend is so valuable as one ready to attend and sympathize during the incubation and parturition of an idea.
1936 Ess. & Stud. 21 137 I use ‘metaphysical’..as implying a certain refinement and complexity of thought—a kind of ecstasy of intellectual parturition as we find it in Shakespeare and Donne.
1992 Amer. Scholar 61 488/1 It was the outcome of a long period of gestation followed by a rapid parturition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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