单词 | hospice |
释义 | hospicen. 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. 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1818 |
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