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infirmary|ɪnˈfɜːmərɪ|
Also 7 -firmery, (-irie), -fermery.
[ad. med.L. infirmāria, f. infirmus infirm a.: see -ary1 B. 3. The obs. forms perh. repr. F. infirmerie (earlier enfermerie, etc.) = Sp. enfermeria, It. infermeria. The ME. aphetized form was fermery, q.v.]
1. A building or part of a building for the treatment of the sick or wounded; a hospital; esp. the sick-quarters in a religious establishment, a school, workhouse, or other institution.
In the 18th c., the common name for a public hospital: see hospital n. 3. Nearly all such institutions in English provincial towns had originally this name, which is still retained in many cases, e.g. the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, etc.
1625Bacon Ess., Building (Arb.) 552 You must fore-see, that one of them, be for an Infirmary, if the Prince, or any Speciall Person should be Sicke. 1666Pepys Diary 29 Jan., He entertained me with discourse of an Infirmary which he hath projected for the sick and wounded seamen. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 274 She was carried to the infirmary, so they call it in the religious houses in Italy, where the sick nuns or friars are carried. 1748Butler Serm. Gov. Lond. Infirm. Wks. 1874 II. 307 There is..a necessity, in such a city as this [London], for public infirmaries. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 15 The taste of the convents, especially of the Franciscans is better..The Infirmary also is a piece of good architecture. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 47 She was..admitted an out-patient, and her friends had directions given them to attend at the Infirmary on proper days for medicines. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxiii, This is the port wine, ma'am, that the board ordered for the infirmary. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 243 There was not then, in the whole realm, a single infirmary supported by voluntary contribution.
fig.1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 27 Man is Bethesda, and 's five Senses be Porches unto that great Infermery, Where divers cures are sought for. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. v. 151 Those are the persons of Christs infirmary, whose restitution and reduction to a state of life and health was his great design.
†2. A house for rearing delicate plants; a conservatory. Obs. rare.
1707Sloane Jamaica I. Pref., By means of Stoves and Infirmaries, many of them have come to greater perfection, than in any part of Europe.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 100, I ordered the Infirmary-Keeper to bring him into the Ward. 1816in A.C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 161 He was detected by the vigilance of the Infirmary serjeant. |