pregnancyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈprɛɡnənsi/, U.S.

/ˈprɛɡnənsi/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s pregnancye, 1500s pregnacie (probably transmission error), 1500s–1600s pregnancie, 1500s– pregnancy, 1600s pragnancie (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pregnant adj.¹, -ancy suffix.

Etymology: < pregnant adj.¹: see -ancy suffix. With sense 3 compare Italian pregnanza (a1597).

I. Senses related to the mind, language, behaviour, etc.

a. Fertility of the mind, inventiveness, imagination, resourcefulness; quickness or readiness of wit. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun]

i-witc888

anyitOE

understandinga1050

ferec1175

skillwisenessa1200

quaintisec1300

brainc1325

cunning1340

reder1340

cunningnessa1400

sentencec1400

intelligence?1435

speculation1471

ingeny1474

cunningheadc1475

capacity1485

pregnancyc1487

dexterity1527

pregnance?1533

shift1542

wittiness1543

ingeniousness1555

conceitedness1576

pate1598

conceit1604

ingeniosity1607

dexterousness1622

talent1622

ingenuousness1628

solertiousnessa1649

ingenuity1651

partedness1654

brightness1655

solerty1656

prettiness1674

long head1694

long lega1705

cleverness1755

smartness1800

cleverality1828

brain power1832

knowledgeability1834

braininess1876

cerebrality1901

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun]

pregnation?a1425

gravidation1450

pregnancyc1487

conceytatea1500

greatnessa1500

tympany1580

childbearing1612

gestation1615

ingravidation1615

gravidity1651

pregnantness1727

utero-gestation1775

baby-making1827

situation1829

enceinteship1841

tecnogonia1860

infanticipation1934

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > productivity of

pregnancyc1487

pregnance?1533

fertilenessa1586

fertility1615

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 349 They say how thurgh the pregnancye of his fresshely enquyked reson, he first fonde the moyens & wayes to yoke oxen to-gydre in the plough.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlix^v They perceyued in hym great copye of learnynge, pregnancy of wytt.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 593 Henry the eight conceiued so good an opinion of his discreet comportement, and ingenious pregnancie, that he..made him his principall Secretary.

1686 G. Harvey Conclave of Physicians (ed. 2) ii. x. 113 Consider the liveliness of her Features, or pregnancy of Wit, from which her Parents could not but be extreamly happy in their future expectation.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 292 He was chosen to cozen, and deceive a whole Nation..: which he did with notable pregnancy and dexterity.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 309. ¶12 The Diversions of the fallen Angels..are described with great Pregnancy of Thought.

1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 1 Sprat, an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 274 I scarcely know a more striking instance of the strength and pregnancy of the Gothic mind.

1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown iii. 62 There is an intimate relationship between the pregnancy of the artist's inspiration and the ability to give that inspiration its appropriate form.

†b. spec. With reference to young people: quickness of intellect; great potential or promise. Also as a count noun: a young person of great potential. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > specific

pregnancy1599

young fogey1834

ugly duckling1885

screenager1959

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intellectual range > of young persons

pregnance?1533

pregnancy1599

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 16 Certaine knowledge of the Archbishops great industrie, from his youth, not pregnancie alone.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 340 To select yearly one, or moe, of the most promising pregnancies out of both Universities, and to breed them beyond the seas.

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Dialogue Want of Respect due Age in Tracts (1727) 290 He observes a Pregnancy in his Apprentice, which he cherishes and instructs.

1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) III. 227 Such youths as are remarkable for the pregnancy of their parts and goodness of disposition.

1852 R. Williams Eminent Welshmen 342 [Thomas Morgan] was..a poor lad in a farmer's house... The pregnancy of his genius was conspicuous.

a. Latent capacity to produce results; potentiality. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [noun]

possea1592

making1623

potentiality1625

potentialness1668

existibility1677

pregnancy1818

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 401 The estate that was in them, was, by the statute, wholly transferred to serve the uses which were in esse, with a pregnancy and prospect to the contingent remainders, if they should arise in due time.

1883 J. R. Seeley Expansion of Eng. 144 The true test of the historical importance of events..is their pregnancy..the greatness of the consequences likely to follow from them.

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xx. 506 Revolutionary efforts comparable in their pregnancy to those of Eudoxos of Cnidos.

b. Latent significance of language, data, etc.; suggestiveness. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun]

significancy1577

significance1585

expressiveness1655

meaningness1753

pregnancy1839

ideality1845

meaningfulness1904

expressivity1944

1839 E. A. Poe William Wilson in Gift 1840 244 It was the pregnancy of solemn admonition in the singular, low, hissing utterance.

1867 T. Carlyle Shooting Niagara vii, in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) VII. 226 ‘Cheap and nasty’; there is a pregnancy in that poor vulgar proverb, which I wish we better saw and valued!

a1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 63 The political pregnancy of certain words in these had excited my interest.

1986 Dædalus Summer 116 It is worth remarking that this ability to discover pregnancy in an isolated fact is often a hallmark of a scientific genius.

II. Senses relating to the body or physical phenomena.

a. The condition of a female of being pregnant or with child; an instance of this.heterospecific, interstitial, multiple, phantom pregnancy: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pregnanza, greatnes with child, pregnancie, a being great with childe or with yoong.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 214 That extraordinary extension that is requisite in the time of their Pregnancy.

1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 8 May 2/1 After Sentence she pleaded Pregnancy; but a Jury of Matrons being empannel'd, found her not quick with Child.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. i. 13 Those appearances, which gave rise to the belief of Mary's pregnancy, were found to be nothing but the approach of a dropsy.

1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 132 The phænomena of mania and pregnancy will very constantly impede the progress of pulmonary consumption.

1826 Lancet 19 Aug. 660/2 If a female or a practitioner reckon the periods by weekly or lunar months, instead of calendar months, we have at once a protracted pregnancy.

1922 Libr. of Health xv. i. 1504 Ipecacuanha, nux moschata, veratrum and phosphorus have all proved beneficial in the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.

1970 A. Fishler tr. J. Berque in L. E. Sweet Peoples & Cultures Middle East 212 The Seyfi family provided specialists..who were qualified to determine the state of pregnancy of cows and water buffalos.

1975 Canad. Forum 23 May 23/3 If taught early enough it could save many teenagers who reject the pill from unwanted pregnancies.

1995 New Yorker 7 Aug. 52/1 Doctors equipped with..high-speed scanners have been able to observe multiple pregnancies as early as five weeks after conception.

b. figurative or in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun]

bunching1398

struttingc1440

tuberosity?1541

swellnessa1582

bunchiness1594

extuberance1607

protuberance1653

protuberancy1654

tuberousness1681

swell1683

protruberance1746

bossiness1870

bulginess1883

pregnancy1950

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 21 Heresie begat heresie with a certaine monstrous haste of pregnancy in her birth.

1721 Criminal Indictment in W. Hector Judicial Recs. Renfrewshire (1876) I. 99 Not as yett getting your conceaved malice practised, the same continued still upon the groweing hand untill it did come to that pregnancy that you must be eased thereof.

1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 84 I have often announced to you a pregnancy of events, which have soon after been still-born.

1893 E. Lacy Chatterton 11 Your melancholy bard o'erloads his paunch, And thinks it is poetic pregnancy.

a1918 I. Rosenberg As Besieged City in Coll. Poems (1949) 161 The hushed pregnancy And gleaming of hope.

1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 4 May 3/4 Since Packard abolished its regal proboscis and succumbed to the epidemic pregnancy of current American models [of automobiles].

1991 A. Grossman Ether Dome 24 The last pregnancy of the world has come To term—and ultimate light is everywhere.

†4.

a. Esp. of the soil: fertility, fecundity; fruitfulness, abundance in. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > fertility or richness

fecundityc1420

fertility1490

pregnance?1533

fatness1555

battleness1598

pride1603

lust1605

pregnancy1615

pinguity1623

generousness1695

productivity1865

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 21 [Mount Ida] Famous for the iudgement of Paris, and pregnancie in fountaines.

1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 66 Let this pulveriz'd Earth..be expos'd for a Summer and a Winter to the vicissitudes and changes of the seasons..you will find it will have obtain'd such a generous and masculine pregnancy,..as [etc.].

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata iii. 18 The great Pregnancy and Fertility, which the Soil had then acquir'd from the remaining Silts and Sliminess of the Receding Water.

1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. vi. 13 [The earth] will acquire such a genuine and masculine pregnancy.

1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 48 He knows the utmost secret of the earth, The pregnancy of every blossom's birth.

b. A quality or property that causes germination, a vitalizing quality. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 10 Like the eggs of an Ostrich in the dust; I do but lay them in the sun; their own pregnancies hatch the truth.

c. The state or condition of being impregnated with a substance. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > impregnation or infiltration > condition or state of being

pregnancy1666

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus iv. 31 The blood..through its pregnancy with volatil aculeous salt.

Compounds

C1. Medicine. attributive. Designating diseases or conditions associated with pregnancy.

ΚΠ

1899 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. VII. 799 The ‘pregnancy kidney’,..the chronic form of renal disease dependent on pregnancy.

1939 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 45 253 The more frequent pregnancy tumors (also designated as pregnancy gingivitis or epulis gravidarum) are the angiomas and granulomas.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 93/3 If she does not come for her cake readily, she may be a suspect for pregnancy toxaemia or some other pre-lambing metabolic disorder.

2002 Today's Parent Pregnancy & Birth Autumn 32/1 Some women also develop pregnancy mask, which resembles an uneven facial tan.

C2.

pregnancy testing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding

multiplying1599

matching1774

pregnancy test1915

pregnancy testing1938

the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > pregnancy test

rabbit test1914

pregnancy test1915

pregnancy testing1938

1938 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 35 362 A review of the most recent work in pregnancy testing is presented.

1971 Guardian 15 Apr. 22/4 An instant pregnancy-testing service is to be promoted in chemists' shops.

2000 Daily Tel. 9 May 5/5 They include advertisements for..escort agencies, pregnancy testing services, hypnosis and hair loss treatment clinics.

C3.

pregnancy sickness n. nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, typically occurring in the first few months; = morning sickness n. at morning n., adv., and int. Compounds 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea > types of nausea

heartsickness1614

seasickness1625

sea-distempera1641

nausea1771

mal de mer1778

airsickness1784

morning sickness1844

pregnancy sickness1864

carsickness1867

trainsickness1876

motion sickness1881

travel sickness1900

space sickness1912

1864 H. M. Madge Let. 5 Dec. in Cincinnati Lancet & Observer (1865) Apr. 264 The application of ice or cold in some form to the spine should be tried in obstinate cases of pregnancy-sickness.

1962 Lancet 1 Dec. 1178/1 The number of pregnant women who have taken meclozine for pregnancy sickness may well be more than ten million.

2007 D. S. Wilson Evol. for Everyone xii. 75 Morning sickness..is better named pregnancy sickness because it can occur at any time of day.

pregnancy test n. any of various biochemical tests to establish whether a female is pregnant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding

multiplying1599

matching1774

pregnancy test1915

pregnancy testing1938

the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > pregnancy test

rabbit test1914

pregnancy test1915

pregnancy testing1938

1915 Lancet 20 Feb. 380/2 Study of the physico-chemical properties of the individual factors in the Wassermann reaction and in Abderhalden's pregnancy test.

1977 Private Eye 13 May 22/2 (advt.) Pregnancy Test Service. Send small sample of urine & fee £3 for reliable & strictly confidential results by first class return post.

1991 Conjunctions 17 351 Laura nervously awaits the results of a pregnancy test. Leo promises to weed out the ‘bad apples’ in his condom supply.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pregnancy
释义	pregnancyn.¹ Brit. /ˈprɛɡnənsi/, U.S. /ˈprɛɡnənsi/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s pregnancye, 1500s pregnacie (probably transmission error), 1500s–1600s pregnancie, 1500s– pregnancy, 1600s pragnancie (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pregnant adj.¹, -ancy suffix. Etymology: < pregnant adj.¹: see -ancy suffix. With sense 3 compare Italian pregnanza (a1597). I. Senses related to the mind, language, behaviour, etc. 1. a. Fertility of the mind, inventiveness, imagination, resourcefulness; quickness or readiness of wit. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] i-witc888 anyitOE understandinga1050 ferec1175 skillwisenessa1200 quaintisec1300 brainc1325 cunning1340 reder1340 cunningnessa1400 sentencec1400 intelligence?1435 speculation1471 ingeny1474 cunningheadc1475 capacity1485 pregnancyc1487 dexterity1527 pregnance?1533 shift1542 wittiness1543 ingeniousness1555 conceitedness1576 pate1598 conceit1604 ingeniosity1607 dexterousness1622 talent1622 ingenuousness1628 solertiousnessa1649 ingenuity1651 partedness1654 brightness1655 solerty1656 prettiness1674 long head1694 long lega1705 cleverness1755 smartness1800 cleverality1828 brain power1832 knowledgeability1834 braininess1876 cerebrality1901 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun] pregnation?a1425 gravidation1450 pregnancyc1487 conceytatea1500 greatnessa1500 tympany1580 childbearing1612 gestation1615 ingravidation1615 gravidity1651 pregnantness1727 utero-gestation1775 baby-making1827 situation1829 enceinteship1841 tecnogonia1860 infanticipation1934 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > productivity of pregnancyc1487 pregnance?1533 fertilenessa1586 fertility1615 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 349 They say how thurgh the pregnancye of his fresshely enquyked reson, he first fonde the moyens & wayes to yoke oxen to-gydre in the plough. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlix^v They perceyued in hym great copye of learnynge, pregnancy of wytt. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 593 Henry the eight conceiued so good an opinion of his discreet comportement, and ingenious pregnancie, that he..made him his principall Secretary. 1686 G. Harvey Conclave of Physicians (ed. 2) ii. x. 113 Consider the liveliness of her Features, or pregnancy of Wit, from which her Parents could not but be extreamly happy in their future expectation. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 292 He was chosen to cozen, and deceive a whole Nation..: which he did with notable pregnancy and dexterity. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 309. ¶12 The Diversions of the fallen Angels..are described with great Pregnancy of Thought. 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 1 Sprat, an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 274 I scarcely know a more striking instance of the strength and pregnancy of the Gothic mind. 1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown iii. 62 There is an intimate relationship between the pregnancy of the artist's inspiration and the ability to give that inspiration its appropriate form. †b. spec. With reference to young people: quickness of intellect; great potential or promise. Also as a count noun: a young person of great potential. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > specific pregnancy1599 young fogey1834 ugly duckling1885 screenager1959 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intellectual range > of young persons pregnance?1533 pregnancy1599 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 16 Certaine knowledge of the Archbishops great industrie, from his youth, not pregnancie alone. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 340 To select yearly one, or moe, of the most promising pregnancies out of both Universities, and to breed them beyond the seas. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Dialogue Want of Respect due Age in Tracts (1727) 290 He observes a Pregnancy in his Apprentice, which he cherishes and instructs. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) III. 227 Such youths as are remarkable for the pregnancy of their parts and goodness of disposition. 1852 R. Williams Eminent Welshmen 342 [Thomas Morgan] was..a poor lad in a farmer's house... The pregnancy of his genius was conspicuous. 2. a. Latent capacity to produce results; potentiality. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [noun] possea1592 making1623 potentiality1625 potentialness1668 existibility1677 pregnancy1818 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 401 The estate that was in them, was, by the statute, wholly transferred to serve the uses which were in esse, with a pregnancy and prospect to the contingent remainders, if they should arise in due time. 1883 J. R. Seeley Expansion of Eng. 144 The true test of the historical importance of events..is their pregnancy..the greatness of the consequences likely to follow from them. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xx. 506 Revolutionary efforts comparable in their pregnancy to those of Eudoxos of Cnidos. b. Latent significance of language, data, etc.; suggestiveness. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun] significancy1577 significance1585 expressiveness1655 meaningness1753 pregnancy1839 ideality1845 meaningfulness1904 expressivity1944 1839 E. A. Poe William Wilson in Gift 1840 244 It was the pregnancy of solemn admonition in the singular, low, hissing utterance. 1867 T. Carlyle Shooting Niagara vii, in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) VII. 226 ‘Cheap and nasty’; there is a pregnancy in that poor vulgar proverb, which I wish we better saw and valued! a1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 63 The political pregnancy of certain words in these had excited my interest. 1986 Dædalus Summer 116 It is worth remarking that this ability to discover pregnancy in an isolated fact is often a hallmark of a scientific genius. II. Senses relating to the body or physical phenomena. 3. a. The condition of a female of being pregnant or with child; an instance of this.heterospecific, interstitial, multiple, phantom pregnancy: see the first element. ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pregnanza, greatnes with child, pregnancie, a being great with childe or with yoong. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 214 That extraordinary extension that is requisite in the time of their Pregnancy. 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 8 May 2/1 After Sentence she pleaded Pregnancy; but a Jury of Matrons being empannel'd, found her not quick with Child. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. i. 13 Those appearances, which gave rise to the belief of Mary's pregnancy, were found to be nothing but the approach of a dropsy. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 132 The phænomena of mania and pregnancy will very constantly impede the progress of pulmonary consumption. 1826 Lancet 19 Aug. 660/2 If a female or a practitioner reckon the periods by weekly or lunar months, instead of calendar months, we have at once a protracted pregnancy. 1922 Libr. of Health xv. i. 1504 Ipecacuanha, nux moschata, veratrum and phosphorus have all proved beneficial in the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. 1970 A. Fishler tr. J. Berque in L. E. Sweet Peoples & Cultures Middle East 212 The Seyfi family provided specialists..who were qualified to determine the state of pregnancy of cows and water buffalos. 1975 Canad. Forum 23 May 23/3 If taught early enough it could save many teenagers who reject the pill from unwanted pregnancies. 1995 New Yorker 7 Aug. 52/1 Doctors equipped with..high-speed scanners have been able to observe multiple pregnancies as early as five weeks after conception. b. figurative or in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] bunching1398 struttingc1440 tuberosity?1541 swellnessa1582 bunchiness1594 extuberance1607 protuberance1653 protuberancy1654 tuberousness1681 swell1683 protruberance1746 bossiness1870 bulginess1883 pregnancy1950 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 21 Heresie begat heresie with a certaine monstrous haste of pregnancy in her birth. 1721 Criminal Indictment in W. Hector Judicial Recs. Renfrewshire (1876) I. 99 Not as yett getting your conceaved malice practised, the same continued still upon the groweing hand untill it did come to that pregnancy that you must be eased thereof. 1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 84 I have often announced to you a pregnancy of events, which have soon after been still-born. 1893 E. Lacy Chatterton 11 Your melancholy bard o'erloads his paunch, And thinks it is poetic pregnancy. a1918 I. Rosenberg As Besieged City in Coll. Poems (1949) 161 The hushed pregnancy And gleaming of hope. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 4 May 3/4 Since Packard abolished its regal proboscis and succumbed to the epidemic pregnancy of current American models [of automobiles]. 1991 A. Grossman Ether Dome 24 The last pregnancy of the world has come To term—and ultimate light is everywhere. †4. a. Esp. of the soil: fertility, fecundity; fruitfulness, abundance in. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > fertility or richness fecundityc1420 fertility1490 pregnance?1533 fatness1555 battleness1598 pride1603 lust1605 pregnancy1615 pinguity1623 generousness1695 productivity1865 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 21 [Mount Ida] Famous for the iudgement of Paris, and pregnancie in fountaines. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 66 Let this pulveriz'd Earth..be expos'd for a Summer and a Winter to the vicissitudes and changes of the seasons..you will find it will have obtain'd such a generous and masculine pregnancy,..as [etc.]. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata iii. 18 The great Pregnancy and Fertility, which the Soil had then acquir'd from the remaining Silts and Sliminess of the Receding Water. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. vi. 13 [The earth] will acquire such a genuine and masculine pregnancy. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 48 He knows the utmost secret of the earth, The pregnancy of every blossom's birth. b. A quality or property that causes germination, a vitalizing quality. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 10 Like the eggs of an Ostrich in the dust; I do but lay them in the sun; their own pregnancies hatch the truth. c. The state or condition of being impregnated with a substance. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > impregnation or infiltration > condition or state of being pregnancy1666 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus iv. 31 The blood..through its pregnancy with volatil aculeous salt. Compounds C1. Medicine. attributive. Designating diseases or conditions associated with pregnancy. ΚΠ 1899 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. VII. 799 The ‘pregnancy kidney’,..the chronic form of renal disease dependent on pregnancy. 1939 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 45 253 The more frequent pregnancy tumors (also designated as pregnancy gingivitis or epulis gravidarum) are the angiomas and granulomas. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 93/3 If she does not come for her cake readily, she may be a suspect for pregnancy toxaemia or some other pre-lambing metabolic disorder. 2002 Today's Parent Pregnancy & Birth Autumn 32/1 Some women also develop pregnancy mask, which resembles an uneven facial tan. C2. pregnancy testing n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding multiplying1599 matching1774 pregnancy test1915 pregnancy testing1938 the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > pregnancy test rabbit test1914 pregnancy test1915 pregnancy testing1938 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 35 362 A review of the most recent work in pregnancy testing is presented. 1971 Guardian 15 Apr. 22/4 An instant pregnancy-testing service is to be promoted in chemists' shops. 2000 Daily Tel. 9 May 5/5 They include advertisements for..escort agencies, pregnancy testing services, hypnosis and hair loss treatment clinics. C3. pregnancy sickness n. nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, typically occurring in the first few months; = morning sickness n. at morning n., adv., and int. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea > types of nausea heartsickness1614 seasickness1625 sea-distempera1641 nausea1771 mal de mer1778 airsickness1784 morning sickness1844 pregnancy sickness1864 carsickness1867 trainsickness1876 motion sickness1881 travel sickness1900 space sickness1912 1864 H. M. Madge Let. 5 Dec. in Cincinnati Lancet & Observer (1865) Apr. 264 The application of ice or cold in some form to the spine should be tried in obstinate cases of pregnancy-sickness. 1962 Lancet 1 Dec. 1178/1 The number of pregnant women who have taken meclozine for pregnancy sickness may well be more than ten million. 2007 D. S. Wilson Evol. for Everyone xii. 75 Morning sickness..is better named pregnancy sickness because it can occur at any time of day. pregnancy test n. any of various biochemical tests to establish whether a female is pregnant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding multiplying1599 matching1774 pregnancy test1915 pregnancy testing1938 the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > pregnancy test rabbit test1914 pregnancy test1915 pregnancy testing1938 1915 Lancet 20 Feb. 380/2 Study of the physico-chemical properties of the individual factors in the Wassermann reaction and in Abderhalden's pregnancy test. 1977 Private Eye 13 May 22/2 (advt.) Pregnancy Test Service. Send small sample of urine & fee £3 for reliable & strictly confidential results by first class return post. 1991 Conjunctions 17 351 Laura nervously awaits the results of a pregnancy test. Leo promises to weed out the ‘bad apples’ in his condom supply. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pregnancyn.² Forms: 1600s pregnancie, 1600s pregnancy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pregnant adj.², -ancy suffix. Etymology: < pregnant adj.²: see -ancy suffix. Obsolete. The cogency or weight of an argument; clearness of evidence or proof; a compelling reason. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > strength of weighta1533 pregnancy1622 stress1653 stringency1864 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > argument, source of conviction > [noun] > strength of argument strength?c1400 of…validity1581 logic1601 pregnancy1622 solidity1646 cogency1690 pregnantness1727 validness1727 cogence1782 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > argument, source of conviction > [noun] > strength of argument > instance of pregnancy1622 cogency1847 1622 T. Powell Direct. Search of Rec. in Chancerie Ded. sig. A Each man perceiues the reasons pregnancy. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iii. 24 All those pregnancies, and just motives came to just nothing. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 106 Whatever pregnancy there may be in the motives a judicious person doth allege. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹c1487n.²1622
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