| 单词 | spittle-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspittle-house spittle-house n. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. bead-housec1160 spittle?c1225 spittle-housec1315 maison dieu1354 almshouse1395 hospital14.. God's house1425 hospitality1571 townhouse1597 guest house1600 gifts1651 college1694 asylum1776 hospice1818 group home1873 pogey1891 c1315 Shoreham i. 1828 Bote þe syke in-to a spytel hous Entry, þer beþ museles. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 596 Misothonium, a Spytylhous. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 469 Spytylle howse, leprosorium. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 391 in Poems (1981) 123 He..Delyuerit hir in at the spittaill hous. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spyttle house, laderye. 1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 21 §30 Any Hospitall, Measondue or Spittel House..for the Sustentacion and Relief of pore People. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. Gij As it is the Spittle-houses guise, Ouer the gate to write their founders names. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 40 Shee, whom the Spittle-house..Would cast the gorge at. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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