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单词 bridewell
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bridewelln.

Brit. /ˈbrʌɪdw(ɛ)l/, U.S. /ˈbraɪdˌwɛl/, /ˈbraɪdwəl/
Forms: 1500s brydewell, 1500s– bridewell, 1500s–1600s bridewel, 1600s bridlewel, 1600s bridwell. N.E.D (1888) also records a form 1500s brydwelle.
Etymology: < the name of Bridewell Prison in the City of London, subsequently transferred to various other prisons, police cells, etc.The original buildings of Bridewell Prison were constructed as Bridewell Palace by Henry VIII in the early 16th cent., and were given to the Corporation of London by Edward VI in 1553. The name refers to a former holy well dedicated to St Bride (another name for St Brigid of Kildare: see Bridgettine adj.).
Now chiefly historical.
A prison, a jail; esp. a house of correction in which inmates are put to work. Also figurative.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison
workhouse?c1475
house of correction1575
bridewell1583
work-jail1619
correction-housec1625
rasp house1651
bettering house1735
bettering mansion1740
penitentiary house1779
penitentiary1807
work farm1835
farm1857
pen1881
prison-industrial complex1965
1583 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 389 No conuenynt hows hathe been prouyded for a Brydewell to keep and stay the sayd ydle persons to somme honest woorke and labor.
1590 E. Vaughan Method Reading Old & New Test. Pref. There should be no such neede of Prisons for Malefactors, of Bridewells for Libellors, nor of Hatchets for traitors.
a1591 H. Smith Poore Mans Teares (1592) 8 To Briderwell [sic; 1599 Bridewell] with these roagues.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xix. 349 Breaking vp the worke-iails, or bride-wells, by right of warre.
c1689 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 147 The rebells that were imprisoned in the castle and bridewell at Taunton.
1704 E. Welchman Pract. Disc. Dives & Lazarus 38 Jayls and Bridewells are in truth the properest Places for lusty Vagabonds.
1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales i. 8 There are very few Bridewells in which any work is done, or can be done.
1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland 130 A bridewell..with separate day-rooms and airing-yards.
1885 M. Davitt Leaves from Prison Diary I. 32 Various terms of previous imprisonments..in county bridewells.
1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xiv. 263 While he has been in the bridewell several times, he has never been severely punished for his offenses.
1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy i. 25 I heard the Black Maria back into the yard, and they were taken off, and the Bridewell was quiet again.
2001 J. T. Hallinan Going up River v. 67 By the early seventeenth century, there were perhaps 170 bridewells scattered throughout England.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective, as bridewell cell, bridewell house, bridewell keeper, etc.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [adjective]
carceral1570
bridewell1589
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. B.iijv The stocke-keeper of the Bridewel-house of Canterburie.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xx. sig. Ev The Bride-wel-man, and the Beadle.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iv. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 128 This is better then..Bridewell Hemp, brown bread and whip-cord.
1766 E. Lloyd Methodist 45 Needy Merit must not dare To hope..thy Alms to share, Commit that to the Bridewell-lash.
1864 Family Treasury Sunday Reading 175/1 To send you out of it, as out of a bridewell cell, to seek your every thing in Jesus.
1919 S. O'Kelly Parnellite ii. 37 (stage direct.) Policemen turn to the bridewell door, there is an unbolting of locks on the other side.
2012 A. Eccles Vagrancy in Law & Pract. under Old Poor Law ii. 44 After the 1740 Vagrant Act came into force Dorset vagrants were passed by the bridewell keeper to the bridewells in neighbouring counties.
C2.
bridewell bird n. Obsolete a prisoner; a habitual offender; = jail-bird n.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail
Newgate bird1580
bridewell bird1590
jail-bird1603
prison-birda1640
old hand1826
repeater1873
old lag1910
loser1912
in-and-out boy1937
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3v Skufling in the kennel together by the eares like bride well birds.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 78 He..concluded by ordering the three bridewell birds to be hauled out of the black hole..and soundly flogged.
1886 J. P. Altgeld Our Penal Machinery & Its Victims (rev. ed.) 140 The police call them jail birds, or Bridewell birds, and seem to take a delight in ‘running them in’ again at the earliest possible opportunity.

Derivatives

bridewelling n. Obsolete the action of committing a person to a bridewell; imprisonment.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > custody > consigning to > specific
bridewelling1660
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 70 The doctrine and practice of..banishing, bridling, bridewelling, branding, [etc.].
1687 H. Care Draconica 12 Here's Bride-welling, Banishing and Selling of People to Slavery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bridewellv.

Brit. /ˈbrʌɪdw(ɛ)l/, U.S. /ˈbraɪdˌwɛl/, /ˈbraɪdw(ə)l/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: bridewell n.
Etymology: < bridewell n. Compare earlier bridewelling n. at bridewell n. Derivatives.
Now rare.
transitive. To commit (a person) to a bridewell; to imprison. Usually in passive.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]
beclosec1000
setc1100
steekc1175
prison?c1225
adightc1275
imprison1297
laya1325
keepc1330
presentc1380
locka1400
throwc1422
commise1480
clapc1530
shop1548
to lay up1565
incarcerate1575
embar1590
immure1598
hole1608
trunk1608
to keep (a person) darka1616
carceir1630
enjaila1631
pocket1631
bridewell1733
bastille1745
cage1805
quod1819
bag1824
carcerate1839
to send down1840
jug1841
slough1848
to send up1852
to put away1859
warehouse1881
roundhouse1889
smug1896
to bang up1950
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry Pref. p. vi Tenants, who can bear to be insulted, assaulted, kick'd, cuff'd, and Bridewell'd with more Patience than Gentlemen are endow'd with.
1764 St. James's Mag. Mar. 103 What an age and country do we live in; if a poor man must be newgated, pilloried, and bridewelled, for the want of natural, or literary abilities!
1993 Irish Times 6 Aug. 4/6 Young saddle thieves..attempted to bring their booty over the RDS wall and found themselves arrested and Bridewelled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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