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Webster 1913 Edition
Abed
A-bed′
,adv.
[Pref.
a-
in, on + bed
.] 1.
In bed, or on the bed.
Not to be
abed
after midnight. Shakespeare
2.
To childbed (in the phrase “brought abed,” that is, delivered of a child).
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Abed
ABED'
,adv.
Definition 2024
abed
abed
English
Adverb
abed (comparative more abed, superlative most abed)
- In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. [First attested from 1150 to 1350.][1]
- c.1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii:
- Not to be abed after midnight
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
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- To childbed
- c.1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, IV, ii:
- I mean, she's brought a-bed
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Translations
in bed, or on the bed
References
- ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 3