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单词 lazar-house
释义

lazar-housen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈlazar-house.
A house for lazars or diseased persons, esp. lepers; a leper-house, lazaretto.
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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.
figurative.1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. i. 68 Thou must be cleansed of the black blood which makes thee A lazar-house of tyranny.1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. viii. 197 Their house would be a lazar-house, they would be condemned to seclusion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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