† bedlarbadlaweradj.n.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Bed-ridden; a person confined to bed.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > restrained by ill health
bedridc1000
bedridden1340
bedlarc1440
bedrel1513
bed-sickc1550
clinica1631
bedfasta1639
non-surrective1668
decumbent1689
invalided1837
laid1868
to lay aside1879
wheelchaired1938
on the sick1976
the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > confined to bed
bedlawerman1419
bedridden1429
bedlarc1440
bedwoman1568
bedrela1572
clinica1626
decumbent1641
discumbent1766
cot-case1897
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 28 Bedlawyr, decumbens.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 288 Seke wummen..wych bedlaure dede lye.
1468 Medulla Gram. Clinicus, a bedlawere.
1474 Act. Audit. 36 (Jam.) Johne of Kerss wes seke and bedlare.
1868 G. MacDonald Seaboard Parish I. x. 146 Patients, who considered themselves bedlars..bedridden.
Compounds
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > confined to bed
bedlawerman1419
bedridden1429
bedlarc1440
bedwoman1568
bedrela1572
clinica1626
decumbent1641
discumbent1766
cot-case1897
1419 in Promptorium Parvulorum 28 Item lego cuilibet pauperum vocatorum bedlawermen..iiij d.
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