单词 | lazar-house |
释义 | lazar-housen. A house for lazars or diseased persons, esp. lepers; a leper-house, lazaretto. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > leper-house or lazaretto mesel house?a1400 mesel-cote1402 malantary?a1425 maladerie1461 lazar-cote1470 lazar-house1530 lazaretto1549 lazarus-house1560 leper house1574 pest-house1594 lazaret1611 leprosery1792 leper asylum1818 leprosy1834 leprosarium1869 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 237/2 Lasarhouse, lasdriere. 1543 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 149 Mr Rychard Holte..appointed ‘one of the gouernours & Vysytours of the lazarhouses’. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 574 A Lazarhouse of women in Wilt-shire, which one of the said sisters, being her selfe infected with the Leprosie built for them that had the same disease. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 479 A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas'd. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 363. ¶13 A large Hospital, or Lazar-House, fill'd with Persons lying under all kinds of Mortal Diseases. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 159 The unopen'd gate Of the full Lazar-house. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 21 Lepers..driven forth to curse and howl in the lazar-house outside the walls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530 |
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