Caesareanadj.n.
/siːˈzɛːrɪən/ A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [adjective] > ancient or Holy Roman
imperial1480
Caesarean1660
Caesaricala1693
Caroline1849
1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton To Tru Philol. The Italian may be also calld..the Imperiall Cæsarean language.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 95 A short Cæsarian Conquest overcoming without a blow.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 402 The Cæsarean ornaments.
1876 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. iv. 105 Men of the right Cæsarian pattern.
2. (Also with lower-case initial): spec. (in Obstetrics) Caesarean birth n. (also Cæsarean operation, Cæsarean section) the delivery of a child by cutting through the walls of the abdomen when delivery cannot take place in the natural way (so called from the traditional belief that Julius Cæsar was delivered in this way). Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on sex organs > operations on female sex organs > obstetrical operations
Caesarean birth1661
hysterotomy1707
embryotomy1765
embryoctony1788
omphalotomy1828
cephalotomy1836
synchondrotomy1842
symphysiotomy1846
pelviotomy1847
version1853
gastro-hysterotomy1854
craniotomy1855
cranioclasm1860
pubiotomy1865
cephalotripsy1876
episiotomy1878
cleidotomy1901
Caesarean1923
Caesar1952
C-section1960
section1960
vacuum extraction1961
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 344 Concerning this Cæsarian section.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 40 Neither heat nor cold can baracade the..womb of the earth from the Cæsarean Section..of the greedy Miners.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) Sometimes also denominated the Cæsarian birth..as were [born] C. Julius Cæsar, Scipio Africanus, Manlius, and our Edward VI.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 163 If the wife dies in childbed, and the issue is taken out of the womb by the Cæsarean operation, the husband will not be entitled to curtesy.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. v. 98 The Principality of Orange..Clearly Prussia's; but it lies imbedded deep in the belly of France: that will be a Cæsarean-Operation for you!
B. n.
1. An adherent of Cæsar, of the Emperor (against the Pope), or of an imperial system.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > specific parties or groups in Europe generally > members of
Caesarean1528
liberal1814
Christian Democrat1840
possibilist1886
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > adherents of other principles of government
aristocratical1651
imperialist1800
centralist1826
coercionist1841
Caesarean1869
feudalist1870
Caesarist1875
gynecocrat1893
patriarchalist1923
technocrat1932
presidentialist1935
plutodemocrat1939
psephocrat1966
1528 Let. in Brewer Reign Hen. VIII II. 323 The Archbishop of Capua and others of the Cæsarians.
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 182 If any such thing should by the Cæsarients..be attempted.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 282 The eagernesse of the Cæsarians.
1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 2 Then the Cæsarians become..enlightened Liberals.
2. (Also with lower-case initial.) A Cæsarean section. colloquial.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on sex organs > operations on female sex organs > obstetrical operations
Caesarean birth1661
hysterotomy1707
embryotomy1765
embryoctony1788
omphalotomy1828
cephalotomy1836
synchondrotomy1842
symphysiotomy1846
pelviotomy1847
version1853
gastro-hysterotomy1854
craniotomy1855
cranioclasm1860
pubiotomy1865
cephalotripsy1876
episiotomy1878
cleidotomy1901
Caesarean1923
Caesar1952
C-section1960
section1960
vacuum extraction1961
1923 S. P. Warren in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 6 338 (heading) What I have learned from my one hundred and six cesareans.
1948 Parent's Mag. Apr. 93/1 Hospitals generally let mothers recovering from a Caesarean remain longer than the ordinary five-day limit.
1971 H. Brant & A. Brant Dict. Pregnancy 46 It usually takes two to three months before you feel really well after a caesarean.
1985 Washington Post 13 Jan. k2/4 The AMA reports that a Caesarean commands an additional £250 over a vaginal delivery.
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