单词 | abortment |
释义 | † abortmentn. Obsolete. 1. The emptying or expulsion of the contents of the stomach, as by vomiting. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting spewinga1000 vominga1382 brakinga1398 castinga1398 outcastinga1398 vomitc1405 perbreakinga1425 parbreaking1440 vomishmenta1450 upcastingc1450 upbreaking1493 vomiting1495 abortment1577 heaving1601 puke1612 puking1629 egestion1633 evomition1653 vomition1656 yarking1874 emesis1875 1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth ii. vii. 25 The seedes of the Sorrell brused, and druncke either wyth water or wyne, aswageth the daungerous flyxe Dissenteria, and the payne of the bellie of a continuall flyxe, and the abortement of the stomacke. 2. Spontaneous abortion, miscarriage; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > miscarriage abort?a1425 abortion?1537 aborsement1540 miscarrying1568 abortive1587 abortment1595 miscarriage1615 amblosis1706 efflux1754 abortus1764 mc1956 1595 Problemes of Aristotle sig. F3v Old women haue a thicke skinne, and wel compacted, and therefore the vapour can not enter in and cause this abortment. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. F3 Many do much extoll Sage..auerring that it preuenteth all abortument in women. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 644 Sheepes sewet mixed with Goose greace and certaine other medicines, being taken in drinke, doth helpe abortments in women. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 333 We therefore define an abortment to be Either the issuing of an imperfect Infant or his extinction and death in the wombe. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 86 They are dangerous for women with childe..they cause abortment. 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. iv. viii. 223 Violent purging before the fourth month, or after the seventh causes abortment. 3. The product of an abortion or premature birth. Cf. abort n. 2, abortus n. 1. Usually figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > abortion > [noun] > aborted fetus castling1580 abortion1581 abortment1614 effluxion1643 abortus1687 1614 R. Brathwait Poets Willow sig. B2v So as the shepheard surprised with a sympathie of passions, in that his hopes and great expectances are made abortments. a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 134 The Earth, in whose Womb those deserted mineral riches must ever lie buried as lost Abortments. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 218/1 The Abortment was about the bigness of a small Hen-egg. 1888 C. W. Heckethorn Roses & Thorns 50 A physical abortment, Corrupt in heart and mind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1577 |
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