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单词 hospice
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hospicen.

Brit. /ˈhɒspɪs/, U.S. /ˈhɑspəs/
Etymology: < French hospice, < Latin hospitium hospitality, entertainment, a lodging, inn, < hospit-em : see host n.2
1. A house of rest and entertainment for pilgrims, travellers, or strangers, esp. one belonging to a religious order, as those of the monks of St. Bernard and St. Gotthard on the Alps; also, generally, a ‘home’ for the destitute or the sick.
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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
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1818 Blackwood's Mag. 4 88 The Hospice of St Bernard.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 275 Beyond this spot are the Hôpital, an ancient hospice, and a new but unfinished one, commenced by Napoleon.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlviii. 426 Establishing..a hospice in the wilderness of snows.
1894 Times 18 Dec. 13/1 The hospice provides 20 beds, soup, bread, and coals to families, and penny dinners to sandwich-men.
2. A hostel for students; = hospitium n. 2.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence
hospital1536
hostel1536
pensionary1583
inn1655
hotel1748
residence1828
bursa1831
residence hall1857
dormitory1865
hall1879
hospice1895
hospitium1895
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. v. §5. 497 There was more chance of the rule..being enforced [in a college] than in the private Hospice.
3. A nursing-home for the care of the dying or the incurably ill.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > nursing home > for the dying
hospice1893
1893 R. Mulholland in Baroness Burdett-Coutts Woman's Mission Royal Brit. Commission, Chicago Exhib. 246 The Sisters of Charity at Harold's Cross, Dublin..is simply a ‘hospice’, where those are received who have very soon to die, and who know not where to lay their weary heads.
1905 Catholic Herald 3 Feb. 12/3 The Hospice for the Dying in Cambridge Road, which is..under the management of the Irish Sisters of Mercy, has already a few inmates.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 94 Ward for incurables there. Very encouraging. Our Lady's Hospice for the dying. Deadhouse handy underneath.
1967 Nursing Times 28 July 981/1 This week has seen the opening of a hospice where the whole atmosphere is one of leisurely time; time to die.
1967 Nursing Times 28 July 981/1 St. Christopher's Hospice has been planned..to enable patients who are in the last stages of their illness to have..a tranquil end.
1979 M. Campion Making of Hospice iii. 10 A hospice it was.., the choice of name reflecting the Christian belief that death is but the close of one stage of life and the beginning of another and deeper life in Christ.
1985 Washington Post 30 Aug. b1/1 Mother Frances is best known as the founder.., fundraiser and administrator of Helen House, in Oxford, England, probably the world's first hospice for dying or acutely afflicted children.
4. hospice movement n. a movement for the establishment of hospices (sense 3).
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > nursing home > for the dying > movement for the establishment of
hospice movement1979
1979 M. Campion Making of Hospice vii. 31 The hospice movement both national and international, is not in competition with hospitals.
1981 Times 13 May 4/7 What has become known as the ‘hospice movement’ for the specialized treatment of the incurably ill or dying.
1986 Church Times 8 Aug. 7/3 He pays full tribute to his inspirer, Dame Cicely Saunders, who pioneered the hospice movement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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