sponging-housen.

Forms: Also 1600s–1800s spunging-.

Etymology: < sponging n. (in the sense of sponge v. 8c).

A house kept by a bailiff or sheriff's officer, formerly in regular use as a place of preliminary confinement for debtors.

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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > for debtors

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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Spunging-house, a By~prison.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 70 In about two Years and a Quarter he Broke, and was not so happy to get over into the Mint, but got into a Spunging-House.

1765 Ann. Reg. i. 134 It was again debated by several eminent lawyers, whether spunging-houses were to be deemed prisons, and finally determined in the negative.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. ix. ii. vii. 636 In jail, or in a spunging-house, his effects..are as much in his power as if he were at home.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. ix. 283 [We] have been in a spunging-house together.

figurative.1827 T. Hood Bianca's Dream xii, in Whims & Oddities 2nd Ser. In Death's most dreary spunging-house to lie.β. 1838 J. Grant Sketches London 21 I have been arrested, and now locked up in a sponging-house for a debt I am wholly unable to pay.1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxvi. 251 He had made himself much liked in the sponging-house.1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. viii. 386 His creditors..become more pressing, and at last he gets into a sponging-house.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sponging-house
释义	sponging-housen. Forms: Also 1600s–1800s spunging-. Etymology: < sponging n. (in the sense of sponge v. 8c). A house kept by a bailiff or sheriff's officer, formerly in regular use as a place of preliminary confinement for debtors. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > for debtors pounda1500 pledge chamber1577 hell1598 pledge-house1634 sponging-house1699 repository1785 jankers1916 α. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Spunging-house, a By~prison. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 70 In about two Years and a Quarter he Broke, and was not so happy to get over into the Mint, but got into a Spunging-House. 1765 Ann. Reg. i. 134 It was again debated by several eminent lawyers, whether spunging-houses were to be deemed prisons, and finally determined in the negative. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. ix. ii. vii. 636 In jail, or in a spunging-house, his effects..are as much in his power as if he were at home. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. ix. 283 [We] have been in a spunging-house together. figurative.1827 T. Hood Bianca's Dream xii, in Whims & Oddities 2nd Ser. In Death's most dreary spunging-house to lie.β. 1838 J. Grant Sketches London 21 I have been arrested, and now locked up in a sponging-house for a debt I am wholly unable to pay.1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxvi. 251 He had made himself much liked in the sponging-house.1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. viii. 386 His creditors..become more pressing, and at last he gets into a sponging-house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1699
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