| 单词 | to sit up and take nourishment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit up and take nourishment a. intransitive. To be in a sitting posture, in contrast to lying down. Frequently in to sit up and take nourishment (said of patients who have reached a particular stage of convalescence). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > upright to sit upa1535 to sit up1848 to sit up like Jacky1918 to sit tall1976 the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] wholeeOE botenc1225 cover1297 amendc1325 recovera1375 warisha1386 recovera1387 healc1390 recurec1400 soundc1402 mendc1440 convalesce1483 guarish1489 restore1494 refete?a1505 revert1531 to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589 cure1597 recruit1644 to perk upa1656 retrieve1675 to pick up1740 to leave one's bed1742 to sit up and take nourishment1796 to get round1798 to come round1818 to pull through1830 rally1831 to fetch round1870 to mend up1877 to pull round1889 recoup1896 recuperate1897 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xviii. sig. D.viii Some haue I sene euyn in their last sycknes sytte vp in theyr death bed vnderproppted wt pillous take ther play feloes to them & comfort them selfe wyth cardes. 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 112. 1727 The Lieut. Gen. doth now, blessed be God, begin to sit up and recover. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) To sit up in one's Bed, se tenir assis dans son Lit. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 194 He may sometimes sit up in bed for a short space. 1796 L. Ussher Let. 18 May in E. Ussher et al. Extracts Lett. (1812) 85 She is able to sit up and take nourishment, and I trust, in a little time, will be enabled to leave her room. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xxvii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 375 The pale wasted form in the easy-chair (for he sat up to the last). 1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike lv. 311 ‘How's Adair?’.. ‘Sitting up and taking nourishment once more.’ 2001 N. H. Wilson Mountain Pose xxv. 175 She was sitting up in bed reading one of the teen magazines. 2003 G. Carter Survivor ii. 31 I..headed for church, determined to preach as long as I had breath and could still sit up and take nourishment. < as lemmas |
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