lying-in
Americannoun
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lyings-in,
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lying-ins
plural
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of lying-in
First recorded in 1400–50, lying-in is from late Middle English lyynge in. See lie 2, -ing 1, in
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Columbia Women’s opened for business inside a former mansion as a “hospital and dispensary for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women, and a lying-in asylum,” according to its congressional charter.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2019
Reporters dashed through the open door, heard the majority of the scientists declare that the babies had been properly labeled at the lying-in hospital† but somehow switched as the mothers returned to their homes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Students at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine are forcing a reorganization of the lying-in clinic system at the university's Billings Hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was easy for his opponents, for the most part managers of the great lying-in asylums, to show from clinical experiences the weakness of so one-sided a theory.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys and assist at all lyings-in that happened within the parish.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
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