| 单词 | to bring abed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bring abed 3. to bring abed: to bring (a woman) to childbirth; to deliver of a child. Also figurative. Usually in passive. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > be confined [verb] to lie inc1440 to lie downa1500 to bring abed1523 to be confined1772 the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > confine or deliver [verb (transitive)] bestowc1320 light?a1425 laya1500 to lay downa1500 to bring abed1523 to bring to bed, abeda1533 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxlvii. 176 The quene was brought a bedde of a fayre lady named Margarete. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 43v The recording hereof, is my great ioy: for in talking of these matters you bring me abedde. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 45 To goe her full time, and to be brought a bed in good order. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 15 Vpon her breast Delight doth softly sleepe, And of Eternal ioy is brought abed. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 37 At the time the wife is to be brought a bed, her husband removes his board, (which is his bed) to another room. 1716 in Minutes Common Council City N.Y., 1675–1776 (1905) III. 122 You Shall not Enforce any Woman being with Child..to give you any more for your pains or labour in bringing her A Bed than they would Otherwise Do. 1790 Brit. Tribunal 1789 54 He then told the witness that the woman had been brought a bed about two weeks, that the child was dead, and as he could not afford to bury it, wished him to take it. 1819 in Notes & Queries (1865) 19 Aug. 144/1 Louisa brought a bed of a little Girl ¼ past four o'clock, evening. 1998 NPR (Nexis) 26 Nov. I was brought abed of a child off of Cape Cod some few weeks after we had laid anchor there. < as lemmas |
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