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hospice|ˈhɒspɪs|
[a. F. hospice, ad. L. hospitium hospitality, entertainment, a lodging, inn, f. hospit-em: see host n.2]
1. A house of rest and entertainment for pilgrims, travellers, or strangers, esp. one belonging to a religious order, as those of the monks of St. Bernard and St. Gotthard on the Alps; also, generally, a ‘home’ for the destitute or the sick.
1818Blackw. Mag. IV. 88 The Hospice of St Bernard. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 275 Beyond this spot are the Hôpital, an ancient hospice, and a new but unfinished one, commenced by Napoleon. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. xlviii. 62 The establishment of a hospice in the wilderness of snows. 1894Times 18 Dec. 13/1 The hospice provides 20 beds, soup, bread, and coals to families, and penny dinners to sandwich-men.
2. A hostel for students; = hospitium 2.
1895Rashdall Univ. Europe I. v. §5. 497 There was more chance of the rule..being enforced [in a college] than in the private Hospice.
3. A nursing-home for the care of the dying or the incurably ill.
1893R. Mulholland in Baroness Burdett-Coutts Woman's Mission (R. Brit. Commission, Chicago Exhib.) 246 The Sisters of Charity at Harold's Cross, Dublin..is simply a ‘hospice’, where those are received who have very soon to die, and who know not where to lay their weary heads. 1905Catholic Herald 3 Feb. 12/3 The Hospice for the Dying in Cambridge Road, which is..under the management of the Irish Sisters of Mercy, has already a few inmates. 1922Joyce Ulysses 96 Ward for incurables there. Very encouraging. Our Lady's Hospice for the dying. Dead-house handy underneath. 1967Nursing Times 28 July 981/1 This week has seen the opening of a hospice where the whole atmosphere is one of leisurely time; time to die. Ibid., St. Christopher's Hospice has been planned..to enable patients who are in the last stages of their illness to have..a tranquil end. 1979M. Campion Making of Hospice iii. 10 A hospice it was.., the choice of name reflecting the Christian belief that death is but the close of one stage of life and the beginning of another and deeper life in Christ. 1985Washington Post 30 Aug. b1/1 Mother Frances is best known as the founder.., fundraiser and administrator of Helen House, in Oxford, England, probably the world's first hospice for dying or acutely afflicted children.
4. Special Comb. hospice movement, a movement for the establishment of hospices (sense 3).
1979M. Campion Making of Hospice vii. 31 The *hospice movement both national and international, is not in competition with hospitals. 1981Times 13 May 4/7 What has become known as the ‘hospice movement’ for the specialized treatment of the incurably ill or dying. 1986Church Times 8 Aug. 7/3 He pays full tribute to his inspirer, Dame Cicely Saunders, who pioneered the hospice movement. |