就しゅう褥じょく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

going to bed; retiring

Formal/literary term for going to bed or retiring for the night. Rare in everyday speech; more common in older literature or formal contexts.

• 彼かれは毎まい晩ばん十じゅう時じに就しゅう褥じょくする習しゅう慣かんだった。

  He was in the habit of retiring at ten o'clock every night.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

being bedridden

Formal/literary term for being confined to bed due to illness. Rare; modern Japanese more commonly uses 寝たきり or 病床にある.

• 祖そ父ふは病やまいで長ながく就しゅう褥じょくしている。

  My grandfather has been bedridden for a long time due to illness.