a. (sb.) Forms: 4 bedreden, -redden, -raden, 5 bedredene, -redyn, -ryden, 8– bedridden. [L. BEDRID, the -en being added on the analogy of ppl. adjs.]

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  A.  adj. = BEDRID 1.

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c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 808. When he is seke, and bedreden lys.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. VIII. 108. A bedreden womman.

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c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., lxxxv. 459. He laye bedredene vij. yere.

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1711.  F. Fuller, Med. Gymn., 28. A kind of bedridden Creature.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 25. The bedridden may hear divine service in their beds.

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1856.  R. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 239. He tells a bedridden man to climb the mountains.

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  fig.  1816.  Coleridge, Lay Serm., 319. Truths … considered as so true as to lose all the powers of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul.

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  † B.  as sb. A bedridden person. Obs. rare.

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1429.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 78. Euery hows of almouse ordeynet for bedrydens.

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