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parturient, a. and n.|pɑːˈtjʊərɪənt|
[ad. L. parturiens, -ent-, pr. pple. of parturīre to be in labour, to travail, to be pregnant, desiderative of parĕre, part- to bring forth.]
A. adj.
1. About to bring forth or give birth; travailing; transf. bearing fruit.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. iii. Wks. (Grosart) I. 199 More..then the whole Supplication of the Parturient Mountaine. 1597A. M. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 35 b/2 Of the parturient woman. 1657M. Hawke Killing is M. 56 Thus have..Allen's parturient mountaines produced a pittiful and ridiculous Mouse. 1667Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year, Suppl. iii. 37 The plant that is ingrafted, must also be parturient and fruitful. 1861W. B. Brooke Out w. Garibaldi iii. 26, I saw Annita Garibaldi, the now parturient mother, lie down..to die.
2. fig. Ready to bring forth or produce something; big or ‘in travail’ with (a discovery, idea, principle, etc.).
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 248 Not the diminutiuest nooke or creuise of them but is parturient of the like superofficiousnes. 1668M. Casaubon Credulity (1670) 121 That the whole world in a manner, since the Creation, hath been parturient, or in travel of this great truth, and mystery, till the birth of Christ. 1807J. Barlow Columb. viii. 144 Freedom, parturient with a hundred states, Confides them to your hand. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxviii. VIII. 621 The fresh and unborrowed offspring of a really parturient mind.
3. Of or pertaining to parturition.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1810) VII. xcii. 382 Describing the parturient throes. 1860Tanner Pregnancy i. 40 Because the parturient process in domesticated animals is easy or difficult, in proportion as they are subjected to a life of toil. 1893Syd. Soc. Lex., Parturient apoplexy, a puerperal disease occurring in cows.
B. n. A parturient woman.
1956Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. LXXI. 1251 A clinical program was set up to evaluate the effects of chlorpromazine on the parturient during the first and second stages of labor. 1958R. Liddell Morea ii. viii. 192 No birth or death might take place in the sacred enclosure, and the dying or parturient had to be carried hastily on to the hills. 1974R. Winston tr. Wunderlich's Secret of Crete xxv. 334 Many highborn young ladies brought children into the world in this way; the infants were ascribed to the god in whose sanctuary these women had been temple servants or whose medical men had taken care of the parturient. |