| 单词 | quick with child |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquick with child b. Pregnant with a live fetus; spec. at a stage of pregnancy when movements of the fetus have been felt (cf. quicken v.1 4, quickening n.1 1b). Chiefly in quick with child. Also figurative. Now archaic and rare.quick with child may have arisen by the inversion of the phrase with quick child at sense A. 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] greatc1175 with childc1175 with childc1300 baggeda1400 bounda1400 pregnant?a1425 quicka1450 greaterc1480 heavyc1480 teeming1530 great-bellied1533 big1535 boundenc1540 impregnate1540 great-wombeda1550 young with child1566 gravid1598 pregnate1598 pagled1599 enceinte1602 child-great1605 conceived1637 big-bellieda1646 brooding1667 in the (also a) family way1688 in the (also that) way1741 undelivered1799 ensient1818 enwombeda1822 in a delicate condition1827 gestant1851 in pod1890 up the (also a) pole1918 in a particular condition1922 preg?1927 in the spud line1937 up the spout1937 preggy1938 up the stick1941 preggers1942 in pig1945 primigravid1949 preggo1951 in a certain condition1958 gestating1961 up the creek1961 in the (pudding) cluba1966 gravidated- a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 826 (MED) This good man Sawh that sche Qwyk with childe was. 1454 T. Denys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 86 She hath not gon viij wekis quykke. 1493 Festivall (1515) (de Worde) f. 106 Thenne conceyued Elyzabeth and whan she was quycke wt chylde [etc.]. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 674 Then shall Hector be whipt for Iaquenetta that is quicke by him. View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1163 His vnckles wife surviues, purchance Left quick with childe. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. ix. 11) Acknowledging..her issue for their Prince, before she as yet had felt her self quick. 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 51 Sister Salisbery and sister Ansley [are] both quicke with child. 1734 Duchess of Marlborough Let. 24 June in G. S. Thomson Lett. of Grandmother (1932) viii. 128 She is bigger than she was but not yet quick. I hope no accident will happen to her. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 43 Women..quick with child, as their expression is, at the end of two months. 1838 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 237 Attempts to procure the Miscarriage of Women quick with Child. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 238 Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. 1905 Columbia Law Rev. 5 540 Where a woman, convicted of a capital crime, was alleged to be quick with child, the writ de ventre inspiciendo was allowed in order to prevent taking the life of an unborn child. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) xlv. 491 A young and pretty Abagail, three months quick with child. < as lemmas |
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