单词 | misbirth |
释义 | misbirthn. An abortive delivery, a miscarriage. Also concrete: a miscarried fetus; a stillborn child, animal, etc. Now archaic (usually figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > abnormally-formed fetus monstera1400 scarth?a1513 mooncalfa1616 pretergeneration1640 misbirth1648 terata1902 embryopathy1917 thalidomide baby1962 thalidomide child1971 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Misbaert, a Misbirth,..or an Abortive. 1833 T. Carlyle Count Cagliostro in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 132/2 The everlasting Pit had opened itself, and from its still blacker bosom had issued..all manner of shapeless Misbirths. 1887 W. Stokes tr. Tripartite Life Patrick (Rolls) 207 No children save mis-births used to be born to Carthenn. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 38 A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool. 1985 A. J. Schutte in Renaissance Q. 38 Spring 90 Hutchinson's misbirth has been identified as a hydatidiform mole. 1991 ELH 58 239 Reminded thus of Rudy, apparently born deformed, Bloom recalls ‘Aristotle's masterpiece’.., an anthology of abortions and misbirths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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