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bedrid, a., orig. n.|ˈbɛdrɪd|
Forms: 1–2 bedreda (-rida), 4 bederede, 4–5 bedrede, 4–8 bedred, 5 -ered, beedered, 6 beddred, bedread, -reed, -ridde, 7 beddered, -ridde, 6– bedrid.
[OE. bedreda, -rida, f. bed bed + rida rider, f. rídan to ride. LG. has, in same sense, bedderede, -redig; the dulling of the atonic vowel in OE. is frequent in forms like misleca, for mislíca, etc.]
1. Confined to bed through sickness or infirmity. The usual prose form is now bedridden.
c1000Thorpe Hom. II. 422 (Bosw.) Ðǽr læᵹ be ðám weᵹe án bedreda. Ibid. I. 472 Drihten cwæþ to sumum bedridan. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6198 Seke I was, and bedred lay. c1430How Gd. Wife taught Dau. 19 in Babees Bk. (1868) 37 Þe poore & þe beedered, loke þou not loþe. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, xxv, All leprouse and pore beddred creatures. 1565J. Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 393 Lying Bed-read many yeeres for sicknesse of Body. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 139 To her decrepit, sicke, and bed-rid Father. a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. xix. (1661) 430 Clinici Christiani, beddered Christians. 1765Wesley in Wks. (1872) III. 207 He is..now quite bed-rid. 1815Southey Roderick i. 141 Bed-rid infirmity alone was left behind.
2. fig. Worn out, decrepit, impotent.
1621Quarles Argalus & P. (1678) 73 Whose richly furnish'd Table would invite A bedrid stomack to an appetite. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. (1851) 217 What an over-worne and bedrid Argument is this. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. vi. 130 In danger of being bed-rid in his faculties. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. iii. vii. 75 Orthodoxy, bedrid as she seemed. |