单词 | give birth |
释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person or thing) birth a. to give (a person or thing) birth. extracted from birthn.1 (a) Of a person. (i) Of God, a god, or other creative force: to endow (a person, humankind, etc.) with life; to bring into existence. ΚΠ 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) ii. xxx. f. 137 Nature gaue me birth, & now she geueth me death. a1657 G. Daniel Poems III. (1878) 187 The teeming Earth Soe labour'd once, to give a poore Mouse Birth. 1767 W. Harte Amaranth 105 Did not thy Maker, when he gave thee birth, Create thee out of perishable earth? 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 294 Thus spake the One again: Behold, O Earth!..it is I who gave thee birth. 1995 C. Segal tr. Sophocles in Sophocles' Tragic World viii. 189 And no mortal nature gave them birth. (ii) To bear (offspring). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > confine or deliver [verb (transitive)] > give birth forthbring971 akenOE haveOE bearOE to bring into the worldOE teemOE i-bereOE to bring forthc1175 childc1175 reara1275 ofkenc1275 hatcha1350 makea1382 yielda1400 cleck1401 issue1447 engenderc1450 infant1483 deliver?a1518 whelp1581 world1596 yean1598 fall1600 to give (a person or thing) birth1615 to give birth to1633 drop1662 pup1699 born1703 to throw off1742 beteem1855 birth1855 parturiate1866 shell1890 to put to bed1973 bring- 1615 R. Niccols Monodia or Walthams Compl. sig. B7 That buriall to her body dead I giue, Who gaue it birth at first, when it did liue. 1861 Temple Bar June 327 His mother..dies in giving him birth. 2004 C. W. Christian Covenant & Commandment iv. 47 You are as much our child..as if we had given you birth. Welcome to our hearthstone and to our love. (b) Of a place, time, event, etc. (i) Of a country, city, etc.: to be the birthplace of (a person). ΚΠ 1600 Italians Dead Bodie sig. C4v Two Countries do contend for me, Faire Albion, and Italie: To both I owe my selfe at once, There was I borne, here lye my bones. There did I rise, here do I fall: That gaue me birth, this buriall. 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. C The land of whom the sunne so enamor'd is, He lends them his complexion, giues me birth. 1847 T. M. Hughes tr. in Revelations of Portugal I. v. 59 The land, the lovely land that gave me birth ! 1990 K. Lawrence Springs Living Water ix. 194 Spain was matrix, madre to him: she had given him birth, and would sustain him for all his years. (ii) To produce, give rise to (something); to be the source or origin of. ΚΠ 1650 J. Tatham Ostella 45 The Breath of Winter that doth Curd the Earth to give the Season free and timely Birth Comes not so sharply violent as this. 1806 Lady Morgan Wild Irish Girl I. vii. 231 Glorvina waved her head in accedence to the idea, as though my lips had given it birth. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 78 Those happy heights where many a cloud Combined to give you birth and bid you be The royalest of rivers. 1987 A. Nickon & E. F. Silversmith Org. Chem.: Name Game x. 136 Dr. Bartlett christened radical 26 ‘galvinoxyl’ after the chemist who gave it birth. to give birth c. to give birth. extracted from birthn.1 (a) To produce or create life; to be the source of existence. rare. ΚΠ 1648 Nose-gay for House of Commons 1 The Sun shall with his quickning rayes give birth. 2012 D. F. Stramara Praying 222 God gives birth without time and without beginning, unaffectedly, unchangingly, and without any need of a sexual partner. (b) To bear offspring; to have a baby or babies. ΚΠ 1887 Lutheran Witness 21 Sept. 58/1 The grace of God appeared in its fulness when the virgin gave birth and the angels chanted over the fields of Bethlehem. 1950 Herpetologica 6 74 The eighteen young weighed 27 grams; the female after giving birth weighed 60.5 grams. 2017 W. Wang Chem. 68 It takes my mother ten hours and twenty-three minutes to give birth. < as lemmas |
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