abed

Etymology

From Middle English abedde, on bedde (“bed”), from Old English bedd (“bed”). Equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + bed.

adv

1. In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
   Not to be abed after midnight c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii
   [She] is sick abed.
   The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
   Who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret? 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 12, in Cry, the Beloved Country, London: Jonathan Cape
2. To childbed
   I mean, she's brought a-bed c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, IV, ii