casualtyn.

/ˈkaʒ(j)uːəlti/

/ˈkazjuːəlti/

Forms: Also Middle English caswelte, 1800s dialect cas'alty, casselty.

Etymology: < Latin casuālitas, on model of forms like royalty , fealty , penalty ; the fuller form was casuality n.: compare speciality , special-ty ; see -ty suffix¹.

1. Chance, accident (as a state of things). ? Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun]

i-wonc1275

casec1300

adventurec1325

hap1340

accidencea1393

casualty1423

chefe1440

fortunityc1470

enchance?a1475

accidentc1485

chance1526

contingencec1530

lottery1570

casuality1574

chanceableness1581

contingency1623

fortuitiona1641

fortuitness1643

accidentalness1648

accidentality1651

fortuitousness1652

causelessnessa1660

temerity1678

fortuitya1747

spontaneity1751

felicity1809

accidentiality1814

1423 Kingis Quair xxii Were it causit throu hevinly Influence Off goddis will, or othir casualtee.

c1500 Merchant & Son in J. O. Halliwell Nugæ Poeticæ (1844) 23 I have seyn men bothe ryse and falle, hyt ys but caswelte!

c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1877) II. 6 Sainct Annes church..brente by casualtie of fire.

a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) iii. xxxix. 34 Sometimes by meere casualty almost they light upon a very good servant.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 42 Combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. 398 Of too much worth to be left to casualty.

Thesaurus »

a. A chance occurrence, an accident; esp. an unfortunate occurrence, a mishap; now, generally, a fatal or serious accident or event, a disaster.

b. Military. Used of the losses sustained by a body of men in the field or on service, by death, desertion, etc.

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the world > life > death > [noun] > general loss of life > in battle

casualtya1513

loss1840

swarth1847

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxv By Syknesse and other casueltyes he loste moche of his people.

1530 T. Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. II. 30 If any casueltie of deth..chaunced unto hym.

1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. B.viij Betwene the cuppe and the lyppes maye come many casualties.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 82 Augward casualties, bound me in seruitude.

1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts 29 Losses on Land, and casualties at Seas.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. i. 11 in Church-hist. Brit. Many sad casualties were caused by these meetings..Armes and leggs were often broken as well as spears.

1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 290 Several Casualties have happen'd this Week, and the Bill of Mortality is very much increased.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 66 He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

1810 Duke of Wellington Let. 3 Oct. in Dispatches (1836) VI. 453 Not enough to provide for the casualties of the service.

1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 168 The annual loss of property from casualties on our coast.

c. Used of an individual killed, wounded, or injured. Also figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > injured person

casualty1844

the world > life > death > killing > person killed > [noun] > killed in battle

fallen1698

slaughter1757

casualty1844

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvi. 226 Although there may have been some ‘casualties’ in the way of eyes black..and women ‘missing’, there was no return of ‘killed’.

1898 W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 173 A girls' school would shoot straighter... We haven't had a single casualty yet!

1900 W. S. Churchill London to Ladysmith 393 In spite of more than a hundred casualties, the advance never checked for an instant.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 144 Such casualties as could walk back walked.

1919 G. K. Rose 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks Lt. Infty. 86 Nearly 40 rank and file were casualties.

1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 87 With half a dozen porters to wait for our return in case there should be casualties to carry down the glacier.

1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 198 The education of students at the university of Chicago was a war casualty.

†3.

a. State of subjection to chance (see casual adj. 5); liability to accident; precariousness, uncertainty.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability

casualty1503

contingency1635

accidentalness1648

accidentality1651

uncalculableness1831

incalculableness1864

incalculability1873

unpredictability1878

flukiness1888

impredicability1906

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII xxv. Preamb. The casueltie of this worlde is suche & lyfe as uncertayne, etc.

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xvi. f. c The casualtie of oure frayle life.

1668 A. Marvell Let. 27 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 79 Because of the distance of our lodgings and the casualty of finding one another.

1812 Monthly Rev. 67 529 The casualty of public office, its distribution by accidental allotment..tended to form a gambling spirit.

†b. concrete. A thing subject to chance. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability > instance of

uncertainty1619

peradventure1627

casualty?1677

anybody's guess1893

guess1958

uncontrollable1977

?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 6 Mines..in England, are for the most part very great casualties.

4. A casual or incidental charge or payment; spec. in Scots Law, a payment due from a tenant or vassal on the occurrence of certain casual events. casualty of wards: feudal incidents accruing to superiors in ward holdings.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > other customary or feudal dues

land-cheapc848

manredlOE

horngeldc1170

tithing penny1192

averpenny1253

wattle-silver1263

faldfee?a1300

filstinga1300

horn-pennyc1320

common finea1325

wrongeld1340

yule-waitingc1380

lark silver1382

carriagec1400

week-silver1430

aida1475

average1489

castle-boon15..

winage1523

casualty?1529

fry money1530

casualityc1568

white hart silver1594

hornage1611

issues of homage1646

lef-silver1660

frith-silver1669

cert-money1670

aver-silver1847

socage1859

?1529 W. Franklyn Let. in R. Fiddes Life Wolsey (1724) Collect. 207 Worthe two hundrethe markes a yere of standyng rents bysids casualties.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. ii. 57 The Chauncellor..alleaging that the King was much endebted, and that he had neede retaine such casualties to himselfe.

1725 London Gaz. No. 6378/3 His Majesty's Land Rents and Casualties in Scotland.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1817) 225 The King received the feudal casualties of the ward.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 2/1 This right..the casualty of composition on the estate passing to a singular successor, was so irregular in its incidence, and so arbitrary, that it has been so constantly evaded, whether rightly or wrongly, as never to constitute an appreciable addition to the value of the feudal superior's income.

5. Mining. (See quot. 1753.)

ΚΠ

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Casualty, in the tin-mines, a word used to denote the earth and stony matter which is, by washing in the stamping-mills, etc., separated from the tin ore, before it is dried and goes to the crazing mill. [In Phil. Trans. (1678) XII. 952, and Bradley Fam. Dict. (1725) called causalty.]

a. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1886 Cornhill Mag. June 582 A Cas'alty Corner is a feature of every district of outcast London, is to be found wherever the poor of the great city most do congregate.

1886 Cornhill Mag. June 582 Cas'alty labourers.

1892 Ld. Tennyson Churchwarden & Curate i Nasty, casselty weather!

b. Erroneous for causality n.; cf. casual adj. 8.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causality

causality1603

casualty1665

causativeness1846

causativity1856

1665 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 3) vii. §3. 296 The same thing may be both a sign and a cause... And therefore when the Stars are called signs, their casualty is not excluded.

1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 51 Its casualty is that of an objective cause..that operates only as it is apprehended.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as casualty nurse, casualty sister, etc.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types

man-nurse1530

probationer nurse1584

parish nurse1716

day nurse1759

school nurse1836

Gamp1846

hospital nurse1848

pupil nurse1861

male nurse1874

district nurse1883

relief nurse1884

casualty nurse1885

bayman1888

maid nurse1895

charge-nurse1896

ward nurse1899

health visitor1901

practice nurse1912

community nurse1922

scrub nurse1927

theatre nurse1934

para-nurse1942

nurse practitioner1967

rehab nurse1977

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > sister > types of

out-sister1565

sister tutor1918

casualty sister1925

theatre sister1935

1885 St. Bartholomew's Hosp. Rep. 21 89 The casualty department of St. Bartholomew's.

1896 Daily News 17 June 8/3 The casualty nurse.

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxix. 294 He performed three minor operations, with the..casualty-sister assisting him with critical and voiceless composure.

C2.

casualty business n.

ΚΠ

1902 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 7/1 In view of the avowed determination of the fire offices to go into the casualty business.

casualty hospital n. a hospital in which accidents are treated.

ΚΠ

1808 Watering & Sea-bathing Places 47 The Casualty Hospital is intended for such unfortunate persons as suffer by sudden accidents.

casualty insurance n. chiefly U.S. = accident insurance (accident n. Compounds 1a).

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > other types of insurance

reassurance1702

reinsurance1705

fire insurance1721

marine insurance1787

credit insurance1818

self-insurance1829

guarantee fund1848

industrial assurance1850

industrial insurance1853

fidelity guarantee1880

title insurance1882

open cover1884

rain check1884

co-insurance1889

franchise1895

health insurance1901

casualty insurance1902

travel insurance1912

fidelity insurance1930

medigap1966

fidelity bond1970

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 509/2 Another large class of casualty insurance applies to various forms of damage to property.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 509/2 Casualty insurance is yet in its infancy.

casualty list n. a list of the dead, wounded, etc. in an engagement or campaign.

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the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > military

butcher's bill1829

casualty returns1846

casualty list1864

body count1962

1864 Standing Orders, Dress Regul. Artillery 173 (in List of Periodical Returns) Casualty list.

1901 Punch 4 Sept. 163/1 The casualty lists appear about as long as ever.

1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxii The emotional strain, complicated by the offended economic sense, produced by the casualty lists.

1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari i. 22 I have forgotten the precise extent of the casualty list but I remember there were..several horses among the dead.

casualty man n. = casual n. 4.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker > labouring or unskilled

casual labourer1851

roustabout1862

casualty man1887

strapper1888

togt boy1898

rouseabout1899

1887 Beatrice Potter in 19th Cent. Oct. 489 A considerable number of men, possessing a preferred right to employment, act as an intermediate class between the permanent staff and the ‘casualty’ men.

casualty returns n. = casualty list n.

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the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > military

butcher's bill1829

casualty returns1846

casualty list1864

body count1962

1846 Colburn's United Service Mag. May 127 Casualty Return.

1864 Standing Orders, Dress Regul. Artillery 73 The casualty returns being the documents on which the correctness of Brigade Records mainly depends.

casualty ward n. the ward in a hospital in which accidents are treated.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ward > types of ward

foul ward1734

day ward1801

eye ward1828

casualty ward1836

scarlet ward1888

out-ward1890

observation ward1908

open ward1919

casualty1927

post-op1929

Nightingale ward1930

private1942

surgical1961

SCBU1968

NICU1971

pre-op1991

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 138 We were conducted to the ‘casualty ward’ in which she was lying.

Draft additions June 2001

Medicine. Also with capital initial. A casualty ward or department in a hospital (see sense 6); a hospital ward or department providing emergency assessment and treatment. Cf. accident and emergency n. at accident n. Phrases 7.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department

ambulatorium1834

emergency room1886

emergency department1889

recovery room1894

accident and emergency1898

outpatients1910

X-ray1916

casualty1927

abortorium1933

out1933

ER1955

A and E1966

emerg1978

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ward > types of ward

foul ward1734

day ward1801

eye ward1828

casualty ward1836

scarlet ward1888

out-ward1890

observation ward1908

open ward1919

casualty1927

post-op1929

Nightingale ward1930

private1942

surgical1961

SCBU1968

NICU1971

pre-op1991

1927 J. E. Stone Hospital Organization & Managem. v. 88 The casualty also has its own dispensary and a surgery for the supply of dressings.

1968 J. Bell Death of Con Man iv. 46 I was in charge of—of your late nephew's case. In Casualty, I mean, after the accident.

1974 P. White Let. 20 Jan. (1994) xii. 433 We rushed up to St Vincent's casualty where he spent about an hour and a half.

1990 Health Educ. Jrnl. 49 161/2 Serious cases will be missed if too many patients are dissuaded from self-referring to casualty for trivial problems.

1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV post-production script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 1. 34 You don't come to casualty for a termination.

Draft additions January 2018

casualty department n. originally and chiefly British a hospital department providing emergency treatment for urgent cases of illness or injury; cf. sense Additions and accident and emergency n. at accident n. Phrases 7.

ΚΠ

1852 Scotsman 17 Jan. In the casualty department, 38 cases had been treated.

1903 Times 18 June 8 The governors of St. Thomas's Hospital made their annual inspection..yesterday, among the departments viewed being the..casualty department.

1950 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Mar. 610/2 The patient was a girl who attended the casualty department..following a fall from a bicycle.

2013 C. McCullough Bittersweet (2015) 87 Both surgeons saw their share of work in the Casualty department.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	casualty
释义	casualtyn. /ˈkaʒ(j)uːəlti//ˈkazjuːəlti/ Forms: Also Middle English caswelte, 1800s dialect cas'alty, casselty. Etymology: < Latin casuālitas, on model of forms like royalty , fealty , penalty ; the fuller form was casuality n.: compare speciality , special-ty ; see -ty suffix¹. 1. Chance, accident (as a state of things). ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] i-wonc1275 casec1300 adventurec1325 hap1340 accidencea1393 casualty1423 chefe1440 fortunityc1470 enchance?a1475 accidentc1485 chance1526 contingencec1530 lottery1570 casuality1574 chanceableness1581 contingency1623 fortuitiona1641 fortuitness1643 accidentalness1648 accidentality1651 fortuitousness1652 causelessnessa1660 temerity1678 fortuitya1747 spontaneity1751 felicity1809 accidentiality1814 1423 Kingis Quair xxii Were it causit throu hevinly Influence Off goddis will, or othir casualtee. c1500 Merchant & Son in J. O. Halliwell Nugæ Poeticæ (1844) 23 I have seyn men bothe ryse and falle, hyt ys but caswelte! c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1877) II. 6 Sainct Annes church..brente by casualtie of fire. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) iii. xxxix. 34 Sometimes by meere casualty almost they light upon a very good servant. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 42 Combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. 398 Of too much worth to be left to casualty. 2. Thesaurus » a. A chance occurrence, an accident; esp. an unfortunate occurrence, a mishap; now, generally, a fatal or serious accident or event, a disaster. b. Military. Used of the losses sustained by a body of men in the field or on service, by death, desertion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > general loss of life > in battle casualtya1513 loss1840 swarth1847 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxv By Syknesse and other casueltyes he loste moche of his people. 1530 T. Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. II. 30 If any casueltie of deth..chaunced unto hym. 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. B.viij Betwene the cuppe and the lyppes maye come many casualties. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 82 Augward casualties, bound me in seruitude. View more context for this quotation 1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts 29 Losses on Land, and casualties at Seas. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. i. 11 in Church-hist. Brit. Many sad casualties were caused by these meetings..Armes and leggs were often broken as well as spears. 1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 290 Several Casualties have happen'd this Week, and the Bill of Mortality is very much increased. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 66 He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties. 1810 Duke of Wellington Let. 3 Oct. in Dispatches (1836) VI. 453 Not enough to provide for the casualties of the service. 1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 168 The annual loss of property from casualties on our coast. c. Used of an individual killed, wounded, or injured. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > injured person casualty1844 the world > life > death > killing > person killed > [noun] > killed in battle fallen1698 slaughter1757 casualty1844 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvi. 226 Although there may have been some ‘casualties’ in the way of eyes black..and women ‘missing’, there was no return of ‘killed’. 1898 W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 173 A girls' school would shoot straighter... We haven't had a single casualty yet! 1900 W. S. Churchill London to Ladysmith 393 In spite of more than a hundred casualties, the advance never checked for an instant. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 144 Such casualties as could walk back walked. 1919 G. K. Rose 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks Lt. Infty. 86 Nearly 40 rank and file were casualties. 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 87 With half a dozen porters to wait for our return in case there should be casualties to carry down the glacier. 1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 198 The education of students at the university of Chicago was a war casualty. †3. a. State of subjection to chance (see casual adj. 5); liability to accident; precariousness, uncertainty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability casualty1503 contingency1635 accidentalness1648 accidentality1651 uncalculableness1831 incalculableness1864 incalculability1873 unpredictability1878 flukiness1888 impredicability1906 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII xxv. Preamb. The casueltie of this worlde is suche & lyfe as uncertayne, etc. 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xvi. f. c The casualtie of oure frayle life. 1668 A. Marvell Let. 27 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 79 Because of the distance of our lodgings and the casualty of finding one another. 1812 Monthly Rev. 67 529 The casualty of public office, its distribution by accidental allotment..tended to form a gambling spirit. †b. concrete. A thing subject to chance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability > instance of uncertainty1619 peradventure1627 casualty?1677 anybody's guess1893 guess1958 uncontrollable1977 ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 6 Mines..in England, are for the most part very great casualties. 4. A casual or incidental charge or payment; spec. in Scots Law, a payment due from a tenant or vassal on the occurrence of certain casual events. casualty of wards: feudal incidents accruing to superiors in ward holdings. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > other customary or feudal dues land-cheapc848 manredlOE horngeldc1170 tithing penny1192 averpenny1253 wattle-silver1263 faldfee?a1300 filstinga1300 horn-pennyc1320 common finea1325 wrongeld1340 yule-waitingc1380 lark silver1382 carriagec1400 week-silver1430 aida1475 average1489 castle-boon15.. winage1523 casualty?1529 fry money1530 casualityc1568 white hart silver1594 hornage1611 issues of homage1646 lef-silver1660 frith-silver1669 cert-money1670 aver-silver1847 socage1859 ?1529 W. Franklyn Let. in R. Fiddes Life Wolsey (1724) Collect. 207 Worthe two hundrethe markes a yere of standyng rents bysids casualties. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. ii. 57 The Chauncellor..alleaging that the King was much endebted, and that he had neede retaine such casualties to himselfe. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6378/3 His Majesty's Land Rents and Casualties in Scotland. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1817) 225 The King received the feudal casualties of the ward. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 2/1 This right..the casualty of composition on the estate passing to a singular successor, was so irregular in its incidence, and so arbitrary, that it has been so constantly evaded, whether rightly or wrongly, as never to constitute an appreciable addition to the value of the feudal superior's income. 5. Mining. (See quot. 1753.) ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Casualty, in the tin-mines, a word used to denote the earth and stony matter which is, by washing in the stamping-mills, etc., separated from the tin ore, before it is dried and goes to the crazing mill. [In Phil. Trans. (1678) XII. 952, and Bradley Fam. Dict. (1725) called causalty.] 6. a. General attributive. ΚΠ 1886 Cornhill Mag. June 582 A Cas'alty Corner is a feature of every district of outcast London, is to be found wherever the poor of the great city most do congregate. 1886 Cornhill Mag. June 582 Cas'alty labourers. 1892 Ld. Tennyson Churchwarden & Curate i Nasty, casselty weather! b. Erroneous for causality n.; cf. casual adj. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causality causality1603 casualty1665 causativeness1846 causativity1856 1665 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 3) vii. §3. 296 The same thing may be both a sign and a cause... And therefore when the Stars are called signs, their casualty is not excluded. 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 51 Its casualty is that of an objective cause..that operates only as it is apprehended. Compounds C1. attributive, as casualty nurse, casualty sister, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types man-nurse1530 probationer nurse1584 parish nurse1716 day nurse1759 school nurse1836 Gamp1846 hospital nurse1848 pupil nurse1861 male nurse1874 district nurse1883 relief nurse1884 casualty nurse1885 bayman1888 maid nurse1895 charge-nurse1896 ward nurse1899 health visitor1901 practice nurse1912 community nurse1922 scrub nurse1927 theatre nurse1934 para-nurse1942 nurse practitioner1967 rehab nurse1977 the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > sister > types of out-sister1565 sister tutor1918 casualty sister1925 theatre sister1935 1885 St. Bartholomew's Hosp. Rep. 21 89 The casualty department of St. Bartholomew's. 1896 Daily News 17 June 8/3 The casualty nurse. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxix. 294 He performed three minor operations, with the..casualty-sister assisting him with critical and voiceless composure. C2. casualty business n. ΚΠ 1902 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 7/1 In view of the avowed determination of the fire offices to go into the casualty business. casualty hospital n. a hospital in which accidents are treated. ΚΠ 1808 Watering & Sea-bathing Places 47 The Casualty Hospital is intended for such unfortunate persons as suffer by sudden accidents. casualty insurance n. chiefly U.S. = accident insurance (accident n. Compounds 1a). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > other types of insurance reassurance1702 reinsurance1705 fire insurance1721 marine insurance1787 credit insurance1818 self-insurance1829 guarantee fund1848 industrial assurance1850 industrial insurance1853 fidelity guarantee1880 title insurance1882 open cover1884 rain check1884 co-insurance1889 franchise1895 health insurance1901 casualty insurance1902 travel insurance1912 fidelity insurance1930 medigap1966 fidelity bond1970 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 509/2 Another large class of casualty insurance applies to various forms of damage to property. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 509/2 Casualty insurance is yet in its infancy. casualty list n. a list of the dead, wounded, etc. in an engagement or campaign. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > military butcher's bill1829 casualty returns1846 casualty list1864 body count1962 1864 Standing Orders, Dress Regul. Artillery 173 (in List of Periodical Returns) Casualty list. 1901 Punch 4 Sept. 163/1 The casualty lists appear about as long as ever. 1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxii The emotional strain, complicated by the offended economic sense, produced by the casualty lists. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari i. 22 I have forgotten the precise extent of the casualty list but I remember there were..several horses among the dead. casualty man n. = casual n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker > labouring or unskilled casual labourer1851 roustabout1862 casualty man1887 strapper1888 togt boy1898 rouseabout1899 1887 Beatrice Potter in 19th Cent. Oct. 489 A considerable number of men, possessing a preferred right to employment, act as an intermediate class between the permanent staff and the ‘casualty’ men. casualty returns n. = casualty list n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > military butcher's bill1829 casualty returns1846 casualty list1864 body count1962 1846 Colburn's United Service Mag. May 127 Casualty Return. 1864 Standing Orders, Dress Regul. Artillery 73 The casualty returns being the documents on which the correctness of Brigade Records mainly depends. casualty ward n. the ward in a hospital in which accidents are treated. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ward > types of ward foul ward1734 day ward1801 eye ward1828 casualty ward1836 scarlet ward1888 out-ward1890 observation ward1908 open ward1919 casualty1927 post-op1929 Nightingale ward1930 private1942 surgical1961 SCBU1968 NICU1971 pre-op1991 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 138 We were conducted to the ‘casualty ward’ in which she was lying. Draft additions June 2001 Medicine. Also with capital initial. A casualty ward or department in a hospital (see sense 6); a hospital ward or department providing emergency assessment and treatment. Cf. accident and emergency n. at accident n. Phrases 7. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department ambulatorium1834 emergency room1886 emergency department1889 recovery room1894 accident and emergency1898 outpatients1910 X-ray1916 casualty1927 abortorium1933 out1933 ER1955 A and E1966 emerg1978 the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ward > types of ward foul ward1734 day ward1801 eye ward1828 casualty ward1836 scarlet ward1888 out-ward1890 observation ward1908 open ward1919 casualty1927 post-op1929 Nightingale ward1930 private1942 surgical1961 SCBU1968 NICU1971 pre-op1991 1927 J. E. Stone Hospital Organization & Managem. v. 88 The casualty also has its own dispensary and a surgery for the supply of dressings. 1968 J. Bell Death of Con Man iv. 46 I was in charge of—of your late nephew's case. In Casualty, I mean, after the accident. 1974 P. White Let. 20 Jan. (1994) xii. 433 We rushed up to St Vincent's casualty where he spent about an hour and a half. 1990 Health Educ. Jrnl. 49 161/2 Serious cases will be missed if too many patients are dissuaded from self-referring to casualty for trivial problems. 1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV post-production script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 1. 34 You don't come to casualty for a termination. Draft additions January 2018 casualty department n. originally and chiefly British a hospital department providing emergency treatment for urgent cases of illness or injury; cf. sense Additions and accident and emergency n. at accident n. Phrases 7. ΚΠ 1852 Scotsman 17 Jan. In the casualty department, 38 cases had been treated. 1903 Times 18 June 8 The governors of St. Thomas's Hospital made their annual inspection..yesterday, among the departments viewed being the..casualty department. 1950 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Mar. 610/2 The patient was a girl who attended the casualty department..following a fall from a bicycle. 2013 C. McCullough Bittersweet (2015) 87 Both surgeons saw their share of work in the Casualty department. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1423
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