单词 | parturition |
释义 | parturitionn. 1. a. Chiefly technical and literary. The action of giving birth to young; childbirth. Also: a confinement. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery teamOE childinga1275 birtha1325 childc1330 deliverancea1375 childbearinga1400 kindlinga1400 birth-bearingc1426 forthbringing1429 childbirth?a1450 parturitya1450 bearinga1500 delivery1548 parture1588 infantment1597 puerpery1602 exclusion1646 parturition1646 venter1657 outbirth1691 clecking1815 parturience1822 birthing1928 natural childbirth1933 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 116 The conformation of parts is necessarily required..also unto the parturition or very birth it selfe. View more context for this quotation 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. 51 She joyes in Woes, To have in Labour pass'd the Parturition Throes. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xix. 173 The lax and pliable state of a child's head in parturition..was compressed and moulded into the shape of an oblong conical piece of dough. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. iv. 114 Never shall I forget the interview between us immediately subsequent to her first parturition. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 436/1 Utero-gestation in the Mammalia is terminated by parturition or the birth of the young. 1897 H. Wing Milk & its Products ii. 18 The first milk secreted by the animal after parturition is quite distinct in composition. 1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) viii. 191 Colostrum, the material secreted by the mammary gland just before and after parturition. 1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 8 Mother's was a prolix and generally rather inelegant parturition. 2000 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 130 266 If the imagery of Diotima's speech is carefully analyzed, it can be seen that the entire process of procreation takes place within the lover: arousal, begetting, pregnancy, and parturition. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product blossomc1230 fodmea1325 burgeona1340 progenya1393 geniture?1440 fruitc1450 productionc1450 offspring1573 product1573 nursling1591 bantling1593 excrement1600 procedue1602 issuea1616 procedure1626 creature1651 produce1657 parturition1659 outbirth1663 sequel1669 brat1678 operation1774 outgoing1850 fruitling1876 1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory viii. 117 The ardency of love, which we have to any new parturition, is by some space of time abated, after that we have diverted to some other imployment. 2. figurative. The action or an act of bringing something into being, esp. of a literary or imaginative nature; (also) the process of coming into being, esp. when accompanied by a lot of effort. ΚΠ 1810 F. Jeffery in Edinb. Rev. 16 293 If Mr. Scott will only vary his subjects a little more, indeed, we think we might engage to insure his own reputation against any material injury from their rapid parturition. 1826 W. Hazlitt Plain Speaker I. i. 25 He is swelling and turgid..; filling his fancy with fumes and vapours in the pangs and throes of miraculous parturition, and bringing forth only still births. 1846 J. H. Frere Fragment in Wks. (1872) I. 292 The terms of parturition and of birth Express the first development of earth. 1882 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 325 Guesses of newer, better worlds, their mighty parturition Mocking..me. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xiii. 142 No friend is so valuable as one ready to attend and sympathize during the incubation and parturition of an idea. 1936 Ess. & Stud. 21 137 I use ‘metaphysical’..as implying a certain refinement and complexity of thought—a kind of ecstasy of intellectual parturition as we find it in Shakespeare and Donne. 1992 Amer. Scholar 61 488/1 It was the outcome of a long period of gestation followed by a rapid parturition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1646 |
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