childing

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪŋ/    美 /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. gerund of child: the act or process of childbearing or childbirth. archaic,form-of,gerund,uncountable
    — This Conſtantia was fiftie yeares of age before ſhe was conceiued with him; whom the emperor Henrie the ſixth to auoide all doubt and ſurmiſe that of hir conception and childing might be thought, and to the perill of the empire inſue: cauſed his regall tent to be pitched abrode in place where euery man might reſort.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of child form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Able to bear children; fertile; also, pregnant, or in the process of childbirth, or having just given birth to a child. archaic,not-comparable
    — With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory.
  2. Of a flowering plant: producing younger florets around an older flower. archaic,not-comparable
    — [page 323] Bellis minor hortenſis prolifera. Double double Daiſies or childing Daiſies. […] The chiefeſt variety conſiſteth in this, that is beareth many ſmall double flowers, ſtanding vpon very ſhort ſtalkes round about the middle flower, […] [page 324] The French call them Paſquettes, and Marguerites, and the Fruitfull ſort, or thoſe that beare ſmall flowers about the middle one, Margueritons: our Engliſh women call them Iacke an Apes on horſe-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daiſies: but the Phyſitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, eſpecially the ſingle or Field kindes, Conſolida minor.
  3. Fruitful; productive. figuratively,not-comparable,obsolete
    — The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries; and the mazed worlde, / By their increaſe, now knowes not which is which; […]

词源

词源 1
From Middle English childing, childinge [and other forms], from childen (“to give birth to a child”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerunds from verbs). Equivalent to child + -ing.
词源 2
From late Middle English childing (“pregnant”), from childen (“to give birth to a child”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming the present participles of verbs, which were often used as adjectives); equivalent to child (verb) + -ing (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having a specified characteristic, nature, or quality’, and forming the present participles of verbs).
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