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orphanage|ˈɔːfənɪdʒ|
[f. prec. n. + -age.]
1. The state or condition of being an orphan.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 185 Orphanage bringeth many discommodities to a Child. a1631Donne Lett. (1651) 108 There can fall no..Orphanage upon those Children, to whom God is Father. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. 321 A desolate creature she suffered under the worst of orphanage. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 207 His early orphanage was not without its effect in confirming a character naturally impatient of control.
b. Orphans collectively.
1845W. H. Maxwell Hints Soldier on Service I. 34 He will talk of widowed wives and unprotected orphanage.
†2. The guardianship formerly exercised by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London over the persons and property of orphan children within the City under 21 years of age. Obs.
1538in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. ii. App. xc. 252 Al and syngler the porcyons..to be ordered according to the custome of the orphanage of the citie of London. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 19 The common serjeant in London, an office of considerable account, especially in the orphanage.
3. An institution or home for orphans.
1865Even. Standard 7 Feb., There is..an orphanage, in which there are at present 40 children being educated at a low charge. 1871Daily News 16 Dec., The Chinese Government demands the suppression of the foreign orphanages.
4. attrib. (chiefly in sense 2).
1641Termes de la Ley 88 b, His successor may in his owne name have execution of a Recognisance acknowledged to his predecessor for Orphanage money. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xxxii. 519 In London the share of the children (or orphanage part) is not fully vested in them till the age of twenty-one, before which they cannot dispose of it by testament:..but after the age of twenty-one it is free from any orphanage custom. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 423 In that part of the will relating to the orphanage share. |