单词 | greenwich hospital |
释义 | > as lemmasGreenwich Hospital a. A charitable institution for the housing and maintenance of the needy; an asylum for the destitute, infirm, or aged. Obsolete except in English legal use and in proper names like Greenwich Hospital, originally a home for superannuated seamen. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. bead-housec1160 spittle?c1225 spittle-housec1315 maison dieu1354 almshouse1395 hospital14.. God's house1425 hospitality1571 townhouse1597 guest house1600 gifts1651 college1694 asylum1776 hospice1818 group home1873 pogey1891 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 719/16 A nospytalle. 1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 31 I bequethe to þe pore hospitales..to eueryche hospitall, to parte a-monge pore folk, there xx s. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cc An olde and riche Hospitall, dedicated to Saincte Leonarde, in the whiche Almosehouse the poore and indigente people were harbored. 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 5 Yee know the hospitall at the townes ende, wherein the freemen decaied are releaued. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 44 Send into England for rug Gownes, such as poor people wear in Hospitalls. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 38 We go by St. Cross [Winchester] a large hospitall for old men and I thinke most is for ye decayed schollars. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 316/2 Hospitals intended merely for the relief of poor and indigent persons in England are peculiarly called Alms-houses. < as lemmas |
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