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单词 still-born
释义 still-born, a. (and n.)
Also stillborn.
[f. still a. + born ppl. a.]
A. adj.
1. Born lifeless; dead at birth; abortive. Also, formerly, born alive but not breathing.
1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World Wond. 348 Restoring children to life, which were stil borne.1613Bp. Hall Farew. Serm. Pr. Henry Wks. (1625) 462 If a childe were heard cry, it is a lawfull proofe of his liuing: else if hee be dead, we say he is still-borne.1622–3in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 176, iiij still borne Children 4 d.1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 118 It is of importance that the still-born children, and those who die before baptism, should also be registered.1855Poultry Chron. II. 436, I have often revived apparently still-born ducklings with whisky and water.1896W. A. N. Dorland Man. Obstetr. ii. vi. 706 It is a very common occurrence for a child to be born with the respiratory functions in abeyance: such a child is said to be asphyxiated. If efforts at resuscitation prove ineffectual, it is said to have been stillborn.1899H. D. Chapin in C. Jewett Practice of Obstetrics xxviii. 617 Fœtal death must be distinguished from asphyxia... In the latter the heart is pulsating, reflexes are present, and there may be feeble attempts at respiration... The distinction between a dead born and a still born infant can usually be made by the rapid fall of rectal temperature in the former.1911Act 1 & 2 Geo. V, c. 6 § 4 If any person..falsely pretends that any child born alive was still-born..he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.1936O'D. Browne Man. Pract. Obstetr. xix. 170 Technically, if an infant is born alive but never breathes, it is said to be stillborn; if the heart has ceased to beat after birth, deadborn.1953Act 1 & 2 Eliz. II c. 20 §41 ‘Still-born child’ means a child which has issued forth from its mother after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and which did not at any time after being completely expelled from its mother breathe or show any other signs of life, and the expression ‘still-birth’ shall be construed accordingly.1955W. P. D. Logan in Holland & Bourne Brit. Obstetr. & Gynæcol. Practice: Obstetrics xxxix. 1140 In certain countries children born alive but dying within a stipulated number of days are registered as stillborn.
2. fig.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. iii. 64 Grant that our hopes (yet likely of faire byrth) Should be still-borne.1648Herrick Hesper., Comf. Lady 6 Winds have their time to rage; but when they cease, The leavie-trees nod in a still-born peace.1679Dryden Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 4, I haue with mighty anguish of my Soul Just at the Birth stifled this still-born-sigh.1709Tatler No. 110 ⁋7 Authors in Prose and Verse. Those of them who had produced any still-born Work.1827H. Neele Lit. Rem. (1829) 22 It is a very common error to suppose that it [‘Paradise Lost’] fell almost still-born from the press.1830Marryat King's Own xxxv, Those still-born quotations of our messmate Price are most tryingly annoying.1858Greener Gunnery Pref. p. iii, The numerous patents taken out during the last few years, most of which have fallen still-born.1894J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Recoll. I. viii. 135 [His] works one and all fell still-born from the press.
B. as n., a still-born child. Also fig.
1913J. London Let. 30 Jan. (1966) 369 For goodness sake, don't let's have a still-born of it.1977Lancet 30 July 257/1 She gave birth to a pair of male twins, one of which was a stillborn with no malformations. The other boy is normal and healthy.
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