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单词 accouche
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accouchev.

Brit. /əˈkuːʃ/, U.S. /əˈkuʃ/
Forms: 1800s– accouche, 1900s accouch.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French accoucher.
Etymology: < French accoucher to take to one's bed for the delivery of a child, (reflexive) to give birth (both 1165 in Old French; 1160 in sense ‘to go to bed’), to assist (a woman) in giving birth (1671), to produce (an artistic or literary work) (1674) < a- a- prefix5 + coucher couch v.1 Compare earlier accouchement n., accoucheur n., accoucheuse n. N.E.D. (1884) also gives the pronunciation (ăkɑu·tʃ) /əˈkaʊtʃ/.
1. intransitive. Of a woman: to give birth to a child. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > be confined [verb (intransitive)] > give birth
kenc1000
childc1175
beara1382
labour1454
to cry out1623
parturiate1649
pup1708
to fall in two1788
accouche1819
to have one's bed1848
pip1973
to put to bed1973
1819 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Aug. in Wks. (1832) IV. 180 I hope Mrs. M has accouched.
2.
a. transitive. To confine (a woman) to bed for the delivery of a child; to deliver of a child. Cf. to bring to bed at bed n. Phrases 1. Obsolete.
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1821 Friend of India Mar. 361 If a woman be accouched or die in the house of her parents, the parents are unclean for three days, and the brother for one.
1830 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 26 Mar. 2/4 The same woman had come to the Naule, and was accouched there two years ago.
1892 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 24 Apr. The csarina expects to be accouched in June.
b. transitive. To deliver (a woman) of a child; to act as a midwife or accoucheur to (a woman). rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > confine or deliver [verb (transitive)] > give birth > aid in childbirth
unbindc1325
midwife1638
obstetricate1662
deliver1676
accouche1858
granny1880
born1888
1858 Leicester Chron. 13 Feb. I accouched Helen McIntyre on the 2nd of February, of a stillborn daughter.
1931 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 25 June 9/3 Accompanied by the doctor who had accouched the child's mother, they went to the Infants' Shelter and claimed the baby.
c. transitive. To deliver (a child). Obsolete. rare.
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1859 Evening Herald 12 Oct. 6/1 Are all the still-born children accouched into the world to be laid at the feet of their own parents as their murderers?
d. intransitive. To act as a midwife or accoucheur; to assist in the birth of a child. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > be confined [verb (intransitive)] > give birth > aid in childbirth
obstetricate1623
accouche1867
1867 Lancet Mar. 23 (advt.) A Gentleman, aged 26, long accustomed to Visit, Accouche, Dispense, and having good references.
3. transitive. figurative. To deliver or unburden (of something), in the manner of a midwife; (also) to bring to general notice, as if by the action of a midwife or accoucher. Now rare.In early use often with reference to the proverbial phrase the mountain has laboured and brought forth a mouse at mouse n. Phrases 2.
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1832 J. Hewson Christ Rejected ix. 180 When the learned counsel for the crown, had, in his own view of his forensick [sic] talents, safely accouched this mountain of legal knowledge,..the crown barrister sat down.
1860 Ohio Med. & Surg. Jrnl. Sept. 19 Socrates accouched others of their ideas, and then decided upon them as regarded whether they were fit to live.
1870 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 26 Jan. 3/2 The Orange mountain has been accouched.
1918 N. Amer. Rev. 207 765 As far as America is concerned, she [sc. Rebecca West] was accouched by the youngest of our Journals of Opinion.
1958 R. Winter & A. Ellis Let. 1 Jan. in I. L. Reiss & A. Ellis At Dawn of Sexual Revol. (2002) 90 Two volumes—How to Live With a Neurotic and Sex Without Guilt—which have just been or are about to be accouched.

Derivatives

aˈccouching adj. rare
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1823 Bell's Life in London 9 Mar. 430 Mrs. Mary Bryant is a very venerable old lady, and, according to her own statement, she is ‘an accouching nurse,—or a nurse what [sic] attends ladies in their 'couchments’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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