单词 | necessarium |
释义 | necessariumn. A privy, esp. in a monastery (historical). In recent use also: a toilet, lavatory (humorous). Cf. necessary adj. 3, necessary n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > in a convent or monastery rere-dorterc1450 necessarium1848 1848 Archaeol. Jrnl. 5 101 The other outlet from the pisalis..leads to the necessarium, in the corner of which a light..is kept burning. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 13/1 A passage at the other end leads to the ‘necessarium’..a portion of the monastic buildings always planned with extreme care. 1967 Listener 21 Dec. 802/3 Viewers..don't mind having a hundred variations, from ‘The Necessarium’ to ‘The Thunder-Box’ to choose from. 1978 M. Girouard Life Eng. Country House ix. 246 Equal care was taken to provide a drainage system and to link it to a necessarium. 1997 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 25 May I had to look it up too, once I'd feigned a visit to the necessarium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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