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bedridden, a. (n.)|ˈbɛdˌrɪd(ə)n|
Forms: 4 bedreden, -redden, -raden, 5 bedredene, -redyn, -ryden, 8– bedridden.
[f. bedrid, the -en being added on the analogy of ppl. adjs.]
A. adj. = bedrid 1.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 808 When he is seke, and bedreden lys. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. viii. 108 A bedreden womman. c1440Gesta Rom. lxxxv. 459 He laye bedredene vij. yere. 1711F. Fuller Med. Gymn. 28 A kind of bedridden Creature. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 25 The bedridden may hear divine service in their beds. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 239 He tells a bedridden man to climb the mountains.
fig.1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 319 Truths..considered as so true as to lose all the powers of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul.
†B. as n. A bedridden person. Obs. rare.
1429Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 78 Euery hows of almouse ordeynet for bedrydens. |