spitaln.

/ˈspɪtəl/

Forms: Also 1600s spitall, 1700s spittal.

Etymology: Late respelling of spittle n.¹ after hospital n.

a. = spittle n.¹ 1. Also in to rob the spital.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer

to rob the spittle1632

to rob the spital1749

to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908

profiteer1917

1634 Younger Brother's Apol. 50 Bryand Lyle,..hauing two sonnes, both leprous, built for them a Lazaretto or Spitall.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck App. Spitael, a Spitall, or Hospitall.

1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) i. iii. x. 226 This house has been a Religious house, time out of mind, sometimes under the Denomination of a Priory or College, sometimes under that of a Spittal [earlier edd. Spittle] or Hospital.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 194 Defrauding the Poor,..or, to see it under the most opprobrious Colours, robbing the Spittal .

1764 C. Churchill Independence 19 They rob the very Spital, and make free With those alas who've least to spare.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 132 A witch from the spital or almshouse.

1865 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 5/2 ‘Every inch a Queen’ was Eugénie when she drove from cholera-infected spital to spital.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. iv. 85 I ha' nine darters i' the spital.

b. spital sermon n. see spittle n.¹ Compounds 2c.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached on Easter Monday and Tuesday

spittle sermona1596

spital sermon1755

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Spittal...In use only in the phrases, a spittal sermon, and rob not the spittal.

1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 207/2 One good horse-shoe is worth about 2ⁱ/ ₄ Spital sermons.

1863 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 412 When Barrow preached a spital-sermon before the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London.

2. figurative. A foul or loathsome place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun]

fenc888

longayne1340

sloven's inn?1518

slut's corner1570

sink1590

Augean stable1596

spittle1624

spital1771

expectoratory1836

mill-tail1854

stable1903

pisshole1928

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 137 He declares, he will sooner visit a house infected with the plague, than trust himself in such a nauseous spital for the future.

3. A shelter for travellers.

ΘΚΠ

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

1794 W. Wordsworth Guilt & Sorrow xvii Kind pious hands did to the Virgin build A lonely Spital, the belated swain From the night terrors of that waste to shield.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	spital
释义	spitaln. /ˈspɪtəl/ Forms: Also 1600s spitall, 1700s spittal. Etymology: Late respelling of spittle n.¹ after hospital n. 1. a. = spittle n.¹ 1. Also in to rob the spital. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer to rob the spittle1632 to rob the spital1749 to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908 profiteer1917 1634 Younger Brother's Apol. 50 Bryand Lyle,..hauing two sonnes, both leprous, built for them a Lazaretto or Spitall. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck App. Spitael, a Spitall, or Hospitall. 1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) i. iii. x. 226 This house has been a Religious house, time out of mind, sometimes under the Denomination of a Priory or College, sometimes under that of a Spittal [earlier edd. Spittle] or Hospital. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 194 Defrauding the Poor,..or, to see it under the most opprobrious Colours, robbing the Spittal . View more context for this quotation 1764 C. Churchill Independence 19 They rob the very Spital, and make free With those alas who've least to spare. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 132 A witch from the spital or almshouse. 1865 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 5/2 ‘Every inch a Queen’ was Eugénie when she drove from cholera-infected spital to spital. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. iv. 85 I ha' nine darters i' the spital. b. spital sermon n. see spittle n.¹ Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached on Easter Monday and Tuesday spittle sermona1596 spital sermon1755 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Spittal...In use only in the phrases, a spittal sermon, and rob not the spittal. 1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 207/2 One good horse-shoe is worth about 2ⁱ/ ₄ Spital sermons. 1863 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 412 When Barrow preached a spital-sermon before the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London. 2. figurative. A foul or loathsome place. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] fenc888 longayne1340 sloven's inn?1518 slut's corner1570 sink1590 Augean stable1596 spittle1624 spital1771 expectoratory1836 mill-tail1854 stable1903 pisshole1928 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 137 He declares, he will sooner visit a house infected with the plague, than trust himself in such a nauseous spital for the future. 3. A shelter for travellers. ΘΚΠ 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 1794 W. Wordsworth Guilt & Sorrow xvii Kind pious hands did to the Virgin build A lonely Spital, the belated swain From the night terrors of that waste to shield. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1634
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