单词 | prison-house |
释义 | prison-housen. A building that is or serves as a prison. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1419 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/297/3) m. 11 Imprisonatus apud Dytysham in quadam domo vocata Prisonhows. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deeds xii. 7 And lo! an aungel of the Lord stoode nyȝ, and liȝt schoon in the prisoun hous. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 804/6 Hic carcer, a presunhowse. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 856 So [he] put them both into the prison house, and made the dores be shut after them. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 14 I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house. 1658 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1885) III. 131c A dwelling howse..[bounded] westward with the ground belonging to the prison howse. 1756 J. Hempstead Diary 674 [I] went to the Prisonhouse to take an Evidence for Capt. Boardman. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 661 So fare we in this prison-house, the world. 1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 151 Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy. View more context for this quotation 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 39 In the old prison-house of the town. 1902 Daily Chron. 25 Apr. 6/5 To escape from the prison-house of London streets and factories into the ‘great spaces of nature’. 1931 Times 1 Sept. 15 The commemoration stone will be conveyed from the prison house at Carrog, where Glendower was imprisoned by Lord Grey. 1988 P. Van Sommers Jealousy ii. 48 We grow in a prison-house of our own private consciousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1419 |
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