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单词 eleemosynary house
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eleemosynary house
1. Of or pertaining to alms or almsgiving; charitable. eleemosynary house, eleemosynary corporation, one established for the distribution of alms, etc.
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almsfulOE
charitous1340
charitable?a1400
eleemosynarya1640
caritative1884
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §293 302 These her eleemosinary acts..are almost vanished.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 659 The Elemosinary House or Hospital for the maintenance of two Capellanes.
1702 in London Gaz. No. 3812/1 Divers Persons to whom Eleemosinary Protections were granted.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 86 The blind eleemosynary spirit inculcated by the Romish church is notoriously the cause..of beggary.
1865 H. Staunton Great Schools Eng.: Dulwich 502 Three [portions] are assigned to the Educational and one to the Eleemosynary branch.
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