bloodlettingn.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈblədˌlɛdɪŋ/

Forms: see blood n. and letting n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., letting n.²

Etymology: < blood n. + letting n.², after to let blood at blood n. Phrases 1d. Compare bloodlease n.Compare also Old English blōdlǣte , in the same sense ( < blood n. + Old English lǣte ( < the same base as lǣtan let v.¹)):eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxxii. 148 Gif mon æt blodlætan on sinwe beslea, meng tosomne weax & pic & sceapen smera, lege on clað & on þæt dolh.

1. The action or process of extracting blood (from a person, animal, vein, or part of the body) for (supposed) therapeutic purposes; spec. = phlebotomy n. 1; an instance of this. Also: the act of undergoing this procedure or fact of having undergone it; an instance of this. Now historical.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun]

bloodleaseeOE

bloodlettingOE

lettingOE

minutionc1386

vein bloodc1405

bleedingc1440

blooding1525

eventation?1543

OE Prohibition against Bloodletting in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 281 And eallum criste[n]mannum on þa tid is blodlætincg forboden.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 15 Þe vttere riwle..of ouwer werkes..& of blodletunge.

c1330 Horn Child l. 485 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 185 (MED) Horn..Bilaft at hom for blodeleteing.

c1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 189 Maystris that uthyth blode letyng.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 92 Syne suld thou avis prouffitable blude lattingis for the tyme and the sesoun.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. dd iij The .iiij. is baynyng specially resolutive, for that letteth bloud lettyng.

1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Eii^v In blood-letting, purging, bathing.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. 236 There are many that..use purging and bloud-letting every yeare.

1689 R. Gould Poems 274 Free from the Watchmens Bills, and Bully's stab, And the Embraces of his Pocky Drab; And being so, art free from Purging, Sweating At Spring and Fall, with blist'ring and blood-letting.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 400 It might..seem possible, that blood-letting had only let out the vitiated part.

1787 B. Bell Syst. Surg. V. v. §2. 331 The indiscriminate use of blood-letting, and an abstemious regimen, in every case of hernia, appears to be too rigidly adhered to.

1832 Lancet 23 June 368 Bloodletting..has little influence over mucous inflammations, as may be witnessed in conjunctivitis, bronchitis, dysentery, gonorrhoea.

1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 130 The evils of bloodletting arise from its spoliative effect.

1954 G. R. Cameron in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxxi. 574 The practice of blood-letting or venesection can be traced back to about 2500 B.C.

1992 P. Sandblom Creativity & Dis. 138 Lord Byron's life was also shortened by excessive bloodlettings even though he defended himself irascibly.

2007 V. Smith Clean iii. 97 Failing this, there was the equally ancient method of bloodletting (venesection), and in desperate cases, cauterization with hot irons.

2. The shedding of blood; violent or aggressive action; esp. killing or wounding. Also occasionally: an instance of this.Originally with direct figurative allusion to sense 1, but cf. earlier blood n. Phrases 1d(b).

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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed

bloodOE

bloodsheddingc1230

bloodsheda1450

bloodletting1648

1648 Brief Disc. Present Miseries Kingdome 16 Pride and plenty are the diseases of this City, and War which by bloud-letting cures the sicknesse must doe it; but there is a great deale of hazard in it.

1657 R. Culmer Parish Looking-glasse 34 You have let my purse bloud, but I will let your bloud to some tune ere long, I'll warrant you. And (in prosecution of that blood-letting) one of the said Answerers..came lately alone to the said Commissioners house.

1820 Niles' Weekly Reg. 1 July 324/1 Some of the British papers think that the execution or banishment of ‘twenty, two hundred, or two thousand persons’, will only act upon the present stale of things in England as ‘a casual blood letting’, and be wholly ineffectual.

1845 N. P. Willis Dashes at Life with Free Pencil iv. 159 The immediate tumult and recoil of politics seem only evil and violence. The pore and the pediculus will complain of bloodletting and blister. We believe the country at large is benefited by the bringing of these bad humors to the surface, however.

1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 654 The instances of bloodletting as a complimentary act in social intercourse cease to be inexplicable. During a Samoan marriage-ceremony the friends of the bride, to testify their respect, ‘took up stones and beat themselves until their heads were bruised and bleeding’.

1915 D. Haig Diary 14 Nov. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 170 Trouble is brewing there [sc. in India] and in Burma. Some blood letting will become necessary for the health of the body politic!

1929 S. L. Cook Torchlight Parade x.101 Men confidently predicted blood letting in the House Chamber.

1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman v. 79 There were in the capital..no visible signs of the bloodletting that was rife in the interior of Java.

1982 Air University Rev. 33 59/1 Rightists and leftists..took to the streets and countryside and engaged in a bloodletting unparalleled in the history of modern Turkey.

1991 T. Mitchell Blood Sport 2 Instead of weighing dispassionately the..complexities of the bullfight phenomenon, many people become fixated on the bloodletting.

2004 Philadelphia Inquirer 13 June a10/1 Political, ethnic and religious bloodletting has left more than 10,000 dead.

a. An attack on one's situation or livelihood; the dramatic reduction or draining of resources, money, etc.; esp. (in later use) the mass dismissal of employees; an instance of this.

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1702 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury Dec. 454 The Tax laid by the Senate of Venice, upon Monasteries, has in some measure brought down the Fat of the Greasie Monks... The Courtezans too have had their Share of this Blood-letting, so that they are like to be great Sufferers, unless they can raise the Price of their Favours.

1883 Scotsman 6 Sept. 5/3 Exacting the fines incurred..a form of bloodletting which would be at once wholesome and effective.

1967 Moderator Apr. 35/2 About 300 of the 1,500 Lockheed personnel..who were working on the firm's ill-fated SST project lost their jobs in the bloodletting that followed the contract loss.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Sept. d1/3 Others fear that the financial bloodletting and the unemployment it causes might lessen the ability of surviving companies to rebound.

1992 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 29 Dec. c1/2 Fortune 500 pillars performed a bloodletting that was steady, extreme and unprecedented.

2010 C. A. Jaffe Getting started in finding Financial Advisor iii. 33 The diversification Diliberto practiced had made the man's losses much less than the bloodletting that was happening on Wall Street.

b. Angry or bitter conflict, esp. within a group or organization.

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1969 A. F. Rolle California (ed. 2) xxxv. 616 This fratricidal in-fighting resembled the blood-letting that had wrecked California's Republican Party in 1958.

1989 T. Gilberg Coalition Strategies of Marxist Parties i. 12 Only two or three [groups] survived the fraternal verbal bloodletting that followed the splits in the international movement.

1998 Economist 28 Nov. 77/1 The bloodletting in President Cardoso's government will not stop approval of a promised austerity package.

2004 L. S. Howe Transgression & Conformity i. 44 The bloodletting and bitching ranged from eloquent to grandiose.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bloodletting
释义	bloodlettingn. Brit. /ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈblədˌlɛdɪŋ/ Forms: see blood n. and letting n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., letting n.² Etymology: < blood n. + letting n.², after to let blood at blood n. Phrases 1d. Compare bloodlease n.Compare also Old English blōdlǣte , in the same sense ( < blood n. + Old English lǣte ( < the same base as lǣtan let v.¹)):eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxxii. 148 Gif mon æt blodlætan on sinwe beslea, meng tosomne weax & pic & sceapen smera, lege on clað & on þæt dolh. 1. The action or process of extracting blood (from a person, animal, vein, or part of the body) for (supposed) therapeutic purposes; spec. = phlebotomy n. 1; an instance of this. Also: the act of undergoing this procedure or fact of having undergone it; an instance of this. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] bloodleaseeOE bloodlettingOE lettingOE minutionc1386 vein bloodc1405 bleedingc1440 blooding1525 eventation?1543 OE Prohibition against Bloodletting in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 281 And eallum criste[n]mannum on þa tid is blodlætincg forboden. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 15 Þe vttere riwle..of ouwer werkes..& of blodletunge. c1330 Horn Child l. 485 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 185 (MED) Horn..Bilaft at hom for blodeleteing. c1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 189 Maystris that uthyth blode letyng. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 92 Syne suld thou avis prouffitable blude lattingis for the tyme and the sesoun. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. dd iij The .iiij. is baynyng specially resolutive, for that letteth bloud lettyng. 1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Eii^v In blood-letting, purging, bathing. 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. 236 There are many that..use purging and bloud-letting every yeare. 1689 R. Gould Poems 274 Free from the Watchmens Bills, and Bully's stab, And the Embraces of his Pocky Drab; And being so, art free from Purging, Sweating At Spring and Fall, with blist'ring and blood-letting. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 400 It might..seem possible, that blood-letting had only let out the vitiated part. 1787 B. Bell Syst. Surg. V. v. §2. 331 The indiscriminate use of blood-letting, and an abstemious regimen, in every case of hernia, appears to be too rigidly adhered to. 1832 Lancet 23 June 368 Bloodletting..has little influence over mucous inflammations, as may be witnessed in conjunctivitis, bronchitis, dysentery, gonorrhoea. 1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 130 The evils of bloodletting arise from its spoliative effect. 1954 G. R. Cameron in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxxi. 574 The practice of blood-letting or venesection can be traced back to about 2500 B.C. 1992 P. Sandblom Creativity & Dis. 138 Lord Byron's life was also shortened by excessive bloodlettings even though he defended himself irascibly. 2007 V. Smith Clean iii. 97 Failing this, there was the equally ancient method of bloodletting (venesection), and in desperate cases, cauterization with hot irons. 2. The shedding of blood; violent or aggressive action; esp. killing or wounding. Also occasionally: an instance of this.Originally with direct figurative allusion to sense 1, but cf. earlier blood n. Phrases 1d(b). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed bloodOE bloodsheddingc1230 bloodsheda1450 bloodletting1648 1648 Brief Disc. Present Miseries Kingdome 16 Pride and plenty are the diseases of this City, and War which by bloud-letting cures the sicknesse must doe it; but there is a great deale of hazard in it. 1657 R. Culmer Parish Looking-glasse 34 You have let my purse bloud, but I will let your bloud to some tune ere long, I'll warrant you. And (in prosecution of that blood-letting) one of the said Answerers..came lately alone to the said Commissioners house. 1820 Niles' Weekly Reg. 1 July 324/1 Some of the British papers think that the execution or banishment of ‘twenty, two hundred, or two thousand persons’, will only act upon the present stale of things in England as ‘a casual blood letting’, and be wholly ineffectual. 1845 N. P. Willis Dashes at Life with Free Pencil iv. 159 The immediate tumult and recoil of politics seem only evil and violence. The pore and the pediculus will complain of bloodletting and blister. We believe the country at large is benefited by the bringing of these bad humors to the surface, however. 1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 654 The instances of bloodletting as a complimentary act in social intercourse cease to be inexplicable. During a Samoan marriage-ceremony the friends of the bride, to testify their respect, ‘took up stones and beat themselves until their heads were bruised and bleeding’. 1915 D. Haig Diary 14 Nov. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 170 Trouble is brewing there [sc. in India] and in Burma. Some blood letting will become necessary for the health of the body politic! 1929 S. L. Cook Torchlight Parade x.101 Men confidently predicted blood letting in the House Chamber. 1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman v. 79 There were in the capital..no visible signs of the bloodletting that was rife in the interior of Java. 1982 Air University Rev. 33 59/1 Rightists and leftists..took to the streets and countryside and engaged in a bloodletting unparalleled in the history of modern Turkey. 1991 T. Mitchell Blood Sport 2 Instead of weighing dispassionately the..complexities of the bullfight phenomenon, many people become fixated on the bloodletting. 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer 13 June a10/1 Political, ethnic and religious bloodletting has left more than 10,000 dead. 3. a. An attack on one's situation or livelihood; the dramatic reduction or draining of resources, money, etc.; esp. (in later use) the mass dismissal of employees; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1702 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury Dec. 454 The Tax laid by the Senate of Venice, upon Monasteries, has in some measure brought down the Fat of the Greasie Monks... The Courtezans too have had their Share of this Blood-letting, so that they are like to be great Sufferers, unless they can raise the Price of their Favours. 1883 Scotsman 6 Sept. 5/3 Exacting the fines incurred..a form of bloodletting which would be at once wholesome and effective. 1967 Moderator Apr. 35/2 About 300 of the 1,500 Lockheed personnel..who were working on the firm's ill-fated SST project lost their jobs in the bloodletting that followed the contract loss. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Sept. d1/3 Others fear that the financial bloodletting and the unemployment it causes might lessen the ability of surviving companies to rebound. 1992 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 29 Dec. c1/2 Fortune 500 pillars performed a bloodletting that was steady, extreme and unprecedented. 2010 C. A. Jaffe Getting started in finding Financial Advisor iii. 33 The diversification Diliberto practiced had made the man's losses much less than the bloodletting that was happening on Wall Street. b. Angry or bitter conflict, esp. within a group or organization. ΚΠ 1969 A. F. Rolle California (ed. 2) xxxv. 616 This fratricidal in-fighting resembled the blood-letting that had wrecked California's Republican Party in 1958. 1989 T. Gilberg Coalition Strategies of Marxist Parties i. 12 Only two or three [groups] survived the fraternal verbal bloodletting that followed the splits in the international movement. 1998 Economist 28 Nov. 77/1 The bloodletting in President Cardoso's government will not stop approval of a promised austerity package. 2004 L. S. Howe Transgression & Conformity i. 44 The bloodletting and bitching ranged from eloquent to grandiose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE
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