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单词 parturient
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parturientadj.n.

Brit. /pɑːˈtjʊərɪənt/, U.S. /pɑrˈt(j)ʊriənt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin parturient-, parturiēns.
Etymology: < classical Latin parturient-, parturiēns, present participle (in post-classical Latin also used as noun, c1191, c1280 in British sources) of parturīre to be in labour, to be pregnant < part- , past participial stem of parere to bring forth (see parent n.) + -urīre , suffix forming desiderative verbs (see -urient suffix).
A. adj.
1. About to give birth; in labour; †(of a plant) bearing fruit (obsolete).In quot. 1592 and some later quots. with allusion to Horace Ars Poetica 139 parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus the mountain has laboured and brought forth a ridiculous mouse: see mouse n. Phrases 2.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth
childbearinga1382
childinga1387
puerperc1429
labouring1540
parturient1592
parturing1598
birthing1901
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii. 32 More Arte, and Iudgement, then the whole Supplication of the Parturient Mountaine.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 35 b/2 Of the parturient woman.
1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder 56 Thus have..Allen's parturient mountaines produced a pittiful and ridiculous Mouse.
1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year Suppl. iii. 37 The plant that is ingrafted, must also be parturient and fruitful.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Let. Mar. (1945) I. 433 She would be very useful at that period when parturient Mrs Thackeray shall be stretched on the straw.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. x. 261 This malady, announced in the tone of a proclamation,..amused the party considerably, although parturient mountains had ere then produced muscipular abortions.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 21 Mar. 665/2 Studies of hormone production in hypocalcemic parturient animals.
1988 G. Palmer Politics of Breastfeeding iii. 30 Such sensitivity has been conspicuously absent from the milieu of hospitalised parturient women.
1991 Smallholder (BNC) Oct. 17 The normal reaction of all parturient females is to seek a degree of isolation for a transient period.
2. figurative. Ready to bring forth or produce something; pregnant with a discovery, idea, principle, etc. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > that may create or produce
fraught with1576
parturient1599
generable1633
the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > that may be created, produced, or constructed
genderablea1398
makeablec1443
generable?a1505
frameable1559
parturient1599
omnipregnant1611
producible1640
creatablea1646
propagable1651
propagatory1652
creablea1656
produceable1677
productible1830
composable1929
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 Not the dimunutiuest nooke or creuise of them but is parturient of the like superofficiousnes.
1668 M. Casaubon Of Credulity & Incred. (1670) 121 That the whole world in a manner, since the Creation, hath been parturient, or in travel of this great truth, and mystery, till the birth of Christ.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 242/2 Parturient Earth unmidwif'd yields.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad viii. 289 Freedom, parturient with a hundred states, Confides them to your hand.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxviii. 621 The fresh and unborrowed offspring of a really parturient mind.
1882 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 278 O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb.
1949 D. Devlin Coll. Poems (1964) 23 Day, hot and grey, low over the plains of storm-sogged wheat. Sky parturient with rain.
3. Of or relating to parturition.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth > relating to
parturious1604
puerperial1648
puerperal1716
parturient1748
parturitive1853
intranatal1902
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xxxiv. 137 Describing the parturient throes.
1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy i. 40 The parturient process in domesticated animals is easy or difficult, in proportion as they are subjected to a life of toil.
1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Parturient apoplexy, a puerperal disease occurring in cows.
1979 T. Keneally Passenger i. 9 He was frightened of women with substantial hips, women who looked natal, women of parturient lines.
B. n.
1. Medicine. = oxytocic n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > obstetric drug > [noun]
ecbolic1753
oxytocic1840
parturient1846
parturifacient1846
1846 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 6) 555/1 A Parturient or Parturifacient is a medicine which induces or promotes labor.
2. Medicine and Cultural Anthropology. A parturient woman. Also with the and plural agreement: parturient women as a class.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun] > woman
pregnant1654
expectant mother1806
primigravida1884
multigravida1890
mother-to-be1899
secundigravida1903
parturient1955
primigravid1981
1955 Obstetr. & Gynecol. 6 568/2 He studied a series of 622 consecutive primigravid parturients at term.
1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. viii. 192 No birth or death might take place in the sacred enclosure, and the dying or parturient had to be carried hastily on to the hills.
1974 R. Winston tr. H. G. Wunderlich Secret of Crete xxv. 334 Many highborn young ladies brought children into the world in this way; the infants were ascribed to the god in whose sanctuary these women had been temple servants or whose medical men had taken care of the parturient.
2002 Brit. Jrnl. Anaesthesia 89 652 We discuss some of the anaesthetic challenges of parturients with ICD devices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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parturient
Occurring first in a few direct adoptions from Latin, as parturient (1592), †micturient (1654), esurient (a1672), and hence occasionally added to Latin stems to form adjectives with the meaning ‘desiring, characterized by a desire, (to do something)’, as in †novaturient (1679), nupturient, † vomiturient (1666).
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1878 Eagle (St. John's Coll., Cambr.) X. 81 The vapid concourse of dangling men and nupturient maids.
extracted from -urientsuffix
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adj.n.1592
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