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eleemosynary, a. and n.|ˌɛlɪiːˈmɒsɪnərɪ|
Also 7–8 elemo-, eleemo-, -sin-, -sn-, -sunary.
[ad. med.L. eleēmosynārius, f. eleēmosyna: see alms.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to alms or almsgiving; charitable. eleemosynary house, eleemosynary corporation, one established for the distribution of alms, etc.
c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §293 (1810) 302 These her eleemosinary acts..are almost vanished. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 659 The Elemosinary House or Hospital for the maintenance of two Capellanes. 1702in Lond. Gaz. No. 3812/1 Divers Persons to whom Eleemosinary Protections were granted. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. ii. 80 The blind eleemosynary spirit inculcated by the Romish church is notoriously the cause..of beggary. 1865H. Staunton Grt. Schools Eng., Dulwich 502 Three [portions] are assigned to the Educational and one to the Eleemosynary branch.
2. Dependent on or supported by alms.
1654G. Goddard in Burton Diary (1828) I. Introd. 65 If we be a mere elemosynary Parliament we are bound to do his drudgery. 1667H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxxii. (1713) 264 Is not the whole World the Alms-house of God-Almighty..[in] which he had a right..to place us his eleemosynary Creatures? 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 353 There is a sort of Spunging, elemosinary Travellers. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun (1879) I. vi. 62 Threw forth..food, for the flock of eleemosynary doves.
3. Of the nature of alms; given or done as an act of charity; gratuitous.
a1620J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 348 God will not have the Ministery of the Word eleemosynary, to be matter of meere almes. 1791Boswell Johnson (1831) 46 An eleemosynary supply of shoes. 1849C. Brontë Shirley II. v. 121 Eleemosynary relief never yet tranquillized the working classes. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 246 We have nothing..to do..with eleemosynary..education.
b. Law. Given in ‘free alms’. See almoign.
1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 440 Baronies..given in Frank Almoigne and as Elemosinary.
†B. n. Obs.
1. One who lives upon alms; a beggar. Also fig.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 141 Those professed Eleemosynaries..direct..their petitions on a few and selected persons. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xviii. 112 That the cause should be an Eleemosynary for its subsistence to its effect. 1673H. Stubbe Vind. Dutch War To Rdr. 3 The Parliamentarians were their Eleemosynaries.
2. = almoner. rare.
1656Blount Glossogr., Eleemosynary, an almoner, or one that gives alms. 1678in Phillips. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 458 Robert the Priest had one carucate of land of the King's Eleemosinary.
3. = almonry [ad. med.L. eleēmosynārium].
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 43/1 [In] the Almonry, or Eleemosinary..[are] 4 Yeomen. 1775in Ash.
Hence eleeˈmosynarily adv., in an eleemosynary manner; charitably, by way of charity. |