enwombv.
/ɛnˈwuːm/ 1. transitive. To cause to bear in the womb; to make pregnant. Also figurative.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [verb (transitive)]
geta1375
to beget with childa1393
impregn?c1550
season1555
enwomb1590
knock1598
with-child1605
fill1607
fertilitate1638
ingravidate1642
impregnate1646
improlificate1646
prolificate1650
pregnant1660
pregnate1686
fecundate1721
fecundify1736
to knock up1813
to put in the family way1898
inseminate1923
to get or put (someone) in the (pudding) club1936
stork1936
to put in the way1960
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N6 Me then he left enwombed of this childe.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island x. xxxvii. 144 Her daintie breasts..may seem to sight To be enwombed both of pleasure and delight.
2. To hold or to place in the womb. ? Obsolete.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > carry in womb [verb (transitive)]
bearOE
breedc1000
enfaunt1483
carry1561
enwomba1616
expect1800
gestate1866
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 140 I am your mother, And put you in the Catalogue of those That were enwombed mine. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 144 Mary did inwombe the Father of Mercies.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. App. li Him whose chaste soul enwombd in Virgin chast, etc.
a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 205 God inwomb'd.
3. transferred.
a. To contain as in the womb; in quots. figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > contain or have within [verb (transitive)] > as in the womb
enwomba1625
a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 10 The heaven of heavens cannot contain him [God], much lesse any barren braine inwombe him.
1859 D. M. Mulock Romantic Tales 40 The dull dead metals that lie enwombed there.
b. To plunge into, bury in, the womb or bowels of (something); to enclose, shut up as in the womb.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > as in the womb
womb1557
enwomb1591
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints sig. R2 Her great spirite rejoyned to the spirite Of thir great masse, is in the same enwombed.
1611 J. Donne Funerall Elegie in Anat. World sig. B7v The Affrique Niger streame enwombs It selfe into the earth.
1633 P. Fletcher Elisa 125 in Purple Island Why is he living then in earth enwombed?
1840 R. Browning Sordello v. 418 I enwomb Some wretched Friedrich with his red-hot tomb.
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 442 If thou Enwombest such high courage in thy breast.
Derivatives
enˈwombed adj. pregnant.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective]
greatc1175
with childc1175
with childc1300
baggeda1400
bounda1400
pregnant?a1425
quicka1450
greaterc1480
heavyc1480
teeming1530
great-bellied1533
big1535
boundenc1540
impregnate1540
great-wombeda1550
young with child1566
gravid1598
pregnate1598
pagled1599
enceinte1602
child-great1605
conceived1637
big-bellieda1646
brooding1667
in the (also a) family way1688
in the (also that) way1741
undelivered1799
ensient1818
enwombeda1822
in a delicate condition1827
gestant1851
in pod1890
up the (also a) pole1918
in a particular condition1922
preg?1927
in the spud line1937
up the spout1937
preggy1938
up the stick1941
preggers1942
in pig1945
primigravid1949
preggo1951
in a certain condition1958
gestating1961
up the creek1961
in the (pudding) cluba1966
gravidated-
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas x, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 32 Wondering how the enwombed rocks Could have brought forth so beautiful a birth.
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