hospitaln.

Brit.

/ˈhɒspɪtl/, U.S.

/ˈhɑˌspɪd(ə)l/

Forms: Also Middle English hospitayle, Middle English–1500s hospyt-, Middle English–1600s -ale, Middle English–1600s -alle, Middle English–1700s -all, (Middle English ospytalle, nospytalle).

Etymology: < Old French hospital, modern French hôpital, < medieval Latin hospitāle place of reception for guests, neuter singular of hospitālis (see hospital adj.). Of this word, hostel n.¹ and hotel n. are doublets, and spital n. an aphetized form.

1. A house or hostel for the reception and entertainment of pilgrims, travellers, and strangers; a hospice. Hence, one of the establishments of the Knights Hospitallers.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.

schooleOE

hospitalc1300

khanc1400

xenodochy?c1550

posting inn1556

vent1577

caravanserai1585

yam1587

serai1609

venta1610

post-house1611

xenodochium1612

imaret1613

seraglio1617

rancho1648

hospitium1650

watering-house1664

choultry1698

accommodation house1787

stage-house1788

spital1794

stand1805

resthouse1807

hospice1818

resting1879

stopping house1883

truck stop1961

c1300 Beket 84 Ther is nouth an hospital arerd of Seint Thomas.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 135 To temples in Acres he quath fiue þousand marke, & fiue thousand to þe hospitale.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) x. 40 Before þe kirke..es a grete hospitale..of whilk þe hospitalleres hase þaire first fundacion.

c1500 Melusine (1895) 122 How they chaced two galleyes of the hospytal of Rodes.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 24 §2 The said William Weston or any of his bretherne or confreers of the said Hospitall or house of Sainct John of Hierusalem in England.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 103 The countrey of Prussia, which the Dutch knights of the order of Saint Maries hospitall of Ierusalem haue of late wholly conquered and subdued.

1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1798) iii. 52 An adjacent hospital founded by the princess Hippolita for the reception of pilgrims.

a. A charitable institution for the housing and maintenance of the needy; an asylum for the destitute, infirm, or aged. Obsolete except in English legal use and in proper names like Greenwich Hospital, originally a home for superannuated seamen.

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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

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 719/16 A nospytalle.

1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 31 I bequethe to þe pore hospitales..to eueryche hospitall, to parte a-monge pore folk, there xx s.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cc An olde and riche Hospitall, dedicated to Saincte Leonarde, in the whiche Almosehouse the poore and indigente people were harbored.

1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 5 Yee know the hospitall at the townes ende, wherein the freemen decaied are releaued.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 44 Send into England for rug Gownes, such as poor people wear in Hospitalls.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 38 We go by St. Cross [Winchester] a large hospitall for old men and I thinke most is for ye decayed schollars.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 316/2 Hospitals intended merely for the relief of poor and indigent persons in England are peculiarly called Alms-houses.

†b. A house for the corporate lodging of students in a university; a hostel or hall. Obsolete.

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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence

hospital1536

hostel1536

pensionary1583

inn1655

hotel1748

residence1828

bursa1831

residence hall1857

dormitory1865

hall1879

hospice1895

hospitium1895

1536 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 42 §1 Halles Hostelles Hospitalles.

1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **3^v Saint Iohns in Cambridge, that at that time was..shining so farre aboue all other Houses, Halls, and Hospitalls.

1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iii. i England, instead of being..the Hospital of Fools wou'd be an entire College of Learned Men.

c. A charitable institution for the education and maintenance of the young. Now only in Scottish legal use and in names of ancient institutions such as Christ's Hospital, London, and Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor

hospital1552

charity-school1682

Blue Coat Hospital1700

blue coat school1706

poor school1727

national school1814

industrial school1827

ragged school1843

kitchengarten1877

barrack school1894

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hospitall for children to be brought up, brephotrophia.

1598 B. Jonson Euery Man in his Humor ii. i I tooke him of a child, up, at my doore..gave him mine owne name Thomas, Since bred him at the hospitall.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 164 Among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital.

1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 347/2 An hospital..is sometimes a place of learning, as Christ's Hospital, London.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 275/1 Edinburgh has some noble hospitals and charitable institutions. Among these are..Heriot's Hospital..Watson's Hospitals, Merchant-Maiden and Trades'-Maiden Hospitals, Orphan Hospital, and Gillespie's Hospital.

1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) v. 118 She was brought up in one of the hospitals here.

1880 Chambers's Encycl. Hospital, in Law..in Scotland more frequently signifies a mortification or endowment for the education as well as support of children.

3. spec.

a. An institution or establishment for the care of the sick or wounded, or of those who require medical treatment. (The current sense.)Such institutions are either public or private, free or paying,—or both combined,—general or special with respect to the diseases treated.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary

maison dieu1354

fermery1377

leech-house1483

sick-house1491

hospital1549

infirmitorya1552

guest house1600

infirmatory1603

valetudinary1623

infirmary1625

nosocome1653

hôtel-Dieuc1660

hothouse1707

sanity-institution1799

butcher's shop1890

c1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) xliii Oure hoely places, callyd the Priory of seynt Bartholomew yn Smythfyld, and..the hospital by olde tyme longyng to the same.]

1549 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 137 For the better sustentation and comforte of the diseased and impotent persons within the said hospitall.

1552 Ordre Hospital S. Bartholomewes Pref. sig. A.v This Hospital..Where..there haue bene healed of the pocques, fystules, filthie blaynes and sores, to the nombre of .viij. hundred.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 617 An Hospitall, or spittle for poore folkes diseased.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 299 The money..is sent to the Hospitals of the diseased.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 88 Physicians, surgeons, and others who attend hospitals, ought, for their own sake, to take care that they be properly ventilated.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 85 A Roman Lady..founded at Rome as an act of penance the first public hospital.

figurative and in extended use.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §11 For the world, I count it not an Inne, but an Hospitall, and a place, not to live, but to die in. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace x. 217 The world is a great Hospital full of sick and dying souls, all wounded by one and the same mortal weapon, sin.

b. A similar establishment for the treatment of sick or injured animals.

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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > animal hospital

hospital1613

banian-hospital1813

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 482 The publike Hospitall, which the Citizens..had founded for all kindes of Birds, to cure them in their sicknesse.

1884 Daily News 23 July 7/1 The Great Northern Railway has just set up a hospital for their sick or injured horses.

c. Short for hospital ship n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship

hospital ship1683

pest shipa1684

hospital1709

hospital vessel1897

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel for reception of sick or injured

hospital ship1683

pest shipa1684

hospital1709

victim-ship1835

hospital vessel1897

1709 London Gaz. No. 4562/3 Her Majesty's Ships the Dover..Pembroke-Hospital, and Carcass-Bomb.

1723 London Gaz. No. 6141/3 Serpent Bomb, Smirna Factor Hospital.

d. in (into) hospital: under medical treatment in a hospital. In quot. 1885, transferred of vessels.

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1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iii. 113 More than half the survivors were in hospital.

1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xxii. 305 I saw the absolute necessity of his gun~boats going into hospital.

†4. A house of entertainment; ‘open house’.

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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > house of entertainment

hospitalc1475

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 33 Ne coueytous of foul wynning, but to holde hospital.

1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C The house where Lamilia (for so wee call the Curtizan) kept her hospitall.

†5. A place of lodging. In first quot. figurative. Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place

nestOE

inningOE

hostela1325

lodgingsc1380

lodging-place14..

entry1457

logis1477

hospital?a1513

stay1566

lodge1571

allodgement1598

lodgementa1701

gite1798

put-up1844

hang-out1852

shebang1867

stash1927

pad1935

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 85 Hospitall riall, the lord of all Thy closet did include.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xii. 74 An unclene spirite..banished from his olde hospital.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V4^v They spide a goodly castle..Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, They thether marcht.

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C1. General attributive.

hospital-assistant n.

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1826 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Observ. Surg. (ed. 2) 168 Examined during the night by the nurse of the ward, or by an hospital-assistant.

hospital birth n.

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1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 53 That the hospital-birth be appointed..between decks.

hospital management n.

hospital nurse n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types

man-nurse1530

probationer nurse1584

parish nurse1716

day nurse1759

school nurse1836

Gamp1846

hospital nurse1848

pupil nurse1861

male nurse1874

district nurse1883

relief nurse1884

casualty nurse1885

bayman1888

maid nurse1895

charge-nurse1896

ward nurse1899

health visitor1901

practice nurse1912

community nurse1922

scrub nurse1927

theatre nurse1934

para-nurse1942

nurse practitioner1967

rehab nurse1977

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 514 Women..who are hospital-nurses without wages.

1893 O. Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan iv. 120 You would like me to retire into a convent or become a hospital nurse, or something of that kind.

1936 A. Thirkell August Folly ix. 265 Jessica got up and the hospital nurse left.

1962 A. Christie Mirror Crack'd ii. 13 In real illness you could have a proper hospital nurse, at vast expense and procured with difficulty, or you could go to hospital.

hospital practice n.

hospital surgeon n.

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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 187 One reason why nurses, and perhaps hospital-surgeons escape so often without injury.

hospital tent n.

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1812 Niles' Reg. 2 131/1 300 hospital, horsemen's and common tents.

1862 G. B. McClellan Let. 31 July in Own Story (1887) 458 They are nearly all in hospital-tents and are well provided for.

1936 C. Day Lewis Friendly Tree i. 14 Holding the wound shut..until he reaches the hospital tent.

hospital vessel n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship

hospital ship1683

pest shipa1684

hospital1709

hospital vessel1897

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel for reception of sick or injured

hospital ship1683

pest shipa1684

hospital1709

victim-ship1835

hospital vessel1897

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 620 The true sanatorium for the Coast would be a hospital vessel attached to each district.

hospital-treated adj.

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hospital bed n. (a) a (metal) bed as used in hospitals, higher than an ordinary bed to facilitate nursing, and frequently adjustable in several ways; also hospital bedstead; (b) an available place in hospital for a bed patient.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > bed for sick person > in hospital

hospital bed1823

pay-bed1855

cot1874

bed1881

orthopaedic bed1943

amenity bed1948

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hospital bed

hospital bed1823

cot1874

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > available place in hospital

hospital bed1952

1823 C. Mathews Let. 7 Feb. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) III. 365 I slept in a bed on the road without even posts for curtains—a regular hospital-bed.

1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing viii. 47 Hospital bedsteads are..very much less objectionable than private ones.

1952 Oxf. Junior Encycl. X. 190/2 Small sums paid weekly during health might entitle contributors to a hospital bed in time of need.

1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 55/1 He lends people hospital beds, which he happened to get at a good price.

1973 C. Mullard Black Brit. iv. 46 Overnight, blacks were suddenly held responsible for the unemployment figures.., lack of adequate social services, schools and hospital beds.

hospital blue n. (also hospital blues) the blue uniform worn by wounded soldiers in the wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for members of a body or association > naval, military, etc. > types of

regimentals1728

undress1748

regiments1759

regimental1764

dress uniform1774

kit1785

roast beef coat1802

butternut1810

frock-uniform1810

fatigue-dress1834

fatigue1836

fatigue-uniform1836

shirtsleeve order1854

grey1862

scarlet runnerc1864

square-rig1875

rig of the day1877

swagger-dress1901

trench coat1914

hospital blue1919

romper1922

suntan1937

battle-dress1938

army greens1945

mess kit1953

tiger suit1970

1919 ‘I. Hay’ Last Million (new ed.) vi. 67 Convalescent soldiers in hospital blue.

1920 J. M. Barrie Kiss for Cinderella iii. 109 Danny, who is slightly lame and is in hospital blue.

1920 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 3/3 The ‘airers’ of wounded soldiers were dreaming of jaunts without hospital blue.

1957 R. Campbell Portugal ii. 29 I was clothed in army hospital-blues.

1973 B. Turner Hot-foot iv. 20 Some day I would be spotted as a wanted man by someone who knew me either in khaki or in hospital blues.

hospital-boy n. a boy brought up at a hospital, a charity-boy.

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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 210 A thing only fit for alms-men and hospital-boys.

hospital corps n. the medical corps in the U.S. Navy.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics

orderly1778

hospital steward1856

stretcher-man1874

stretcher-bearer1876

stretcher-party1884

hospital corps1899

hospital corpsman1901

sanitar1916

corpsman1941

1899 Statutes at Large U.S.A. XXX. 474 June 17 1898..Be it enacted..That a hospital corps of the United States Navy is hereby established.

1945 Amer. Handbk. (Office War Information) xxvi. 386 Men of the Hospital Corps include pharmacists... They may be found in the amphibious units of the Marine Corps, in the dressing stations of warships, and in submarines.

hospital corpsman n. (cf. corpsman n.).

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics

orderly1778

hospital steward1856

stretcher-man1874

stretcher-bearer1876

stretcher-party1884

hospital corps1899

hospital corpsman1901

sanitar1916

corpsman1941

1901 E. Root in R. Bacon & J. B. Scott Mil. & Colonial Policy U.S. (1916) 374 An order was made fixing the enlisted strength..exclusive of hospital corps men, at 77,287.

1943 Sci. News Let. 29 May 343 Soon a Hospital Corpsman with a larger kit of supplies comes along and quickly ministers to the wounded man.

hospital fever n. a kind of typhus fever arising in crowded hospitals from the poisonous condition of the atmosphere due to exhalations from diseased bodies.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid

putrid fever1597

pestilential fever1617

tabardillo1624

synochus1625

Hungaric fever1661

typhus1664

military fever1736

jail distemper1745

hospital fever1750

jail-fever1754

ship-fever1758

typhus fever1780

typhoid fever1789

gastric fever1802

dothinenteritis1826

enteric fever1833

typhoid1837

pythogenic fever1858

thanatotyphus1860

typh fever1861

enteric1872

famine-fever1876

Red River fever1878

laryngo-typhus1888

laryngo-typhoid1896

typh fever1900

paratyphoid1904

1750 Pringle (title) Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jail Fevers.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 190 It [sc. putrid fever] possesses the additional names of Jail, Camp, and Hospital Fever.

hospital gangrene n. a spreading, sloughing, gangrenous inflammation starting from a wound and arising in crowded hospitals; also called sloughing phagedæna.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of

fever sore1731

white gangrene1753

hospital ulcer1799

hospital gangrene1813

mildew-mortification1817

caseation1868

phosphorus necrosis1869

gaseous gangrene1882

coagulation necrosis1883

phossy jaw1889

phos1892

gas gangrene1896

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 456 The particular ulcer, to which surgeons now give the name of malignant ulcer, or hospital gangrene.

hospital letter n. a letter referring a patient for free treatment in a hospital.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > letter referring patient to hospital

hospital paper1838

hospital letter1890

1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. iii. 26 He had hoped to have obtained a hospital letter at the Mansion House so as to obtain a truss for a bad rupture.

hospital-man n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital attendant > aboard ship

hospital mate1809

hospital-man1827

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 220 I also allow each captain of the deck and hospital-man two pounds of tobacco for use on the voyage.

hospital mate n. an assistant in a hospital on board ship.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital attendant > aboard ship

hospital mate1809

hospital-man1827

1809 Duke of Wellington Let. to Ld. Liverpool 7 Dec. in Dispatches (1838) V. 341 I also hope your Lordship will..send us out Hospital Mates.

hospital paper n. = hospital letter n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > letter referring patient to hospital

hospital paper1838

hospital letter1890

1838 C. M. Yonge Let. 25 Sept. in C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge (1903) iv. 139 Mr. Rudd, the tall man we took the hospital paper to, is dead.

1890 C. M. Yonge More Bywords 260 Jane Cox is come for a hospital paper, ma'am.

hospital pass n. Rugby etc., a pass to a player likely to be tackled heavily as soon as he receives it.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

holding1866

hand-balling1867

left-footer1874

header1875

handball1879

goal kick1881

corner1882

spot kick1884

middle1899

clearance1920

cross-kick1927

cross-pass1929

body swerve1933

open goal1934

headball1936

chip1939

through-ball1956

wall pass1958

outswinger1959

cross1961

overlap1969

blooter1976

hospital pass1978

route one1978

sidefoot1979

top bin1999

ankle-biting2001

1978 Times 27 Nov. 9/3 The centres were always cramped for room, but the distribution was not always quick or accurate enough and hospital passes were not unknown.

1986 Guardian 17 Mar. 29/7 It was not exactly a hospital pass but... He made three yards before he was smothered.

hospital porter n. (see porter n.¹).

Hospital Saturday n. a particular Saturday in the year on which collections of money for the local hospitals are organized in workshops, in the streets, and elsewhere.

hospital ship n. (a) a vessel fitted up for the reception and treatment of sick and wounded seamen; so hospital berth, hospital cabin, hospital hulk, hospital vessel; (b) a ship for conveying sick and wounded soldiers to their own country or to an area remote from the battlefield.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship

hospital ship1683

pest shipa1684

hospital1709

hospital vessel1897

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel for reception of sick or injured

hospital ship1683

pest shipa1684

hospital1709

victim-ship1835

hospital vessel1897

1683 London Gaz. No. 1877/4 The Swallow is arrived in the Downs..as likewise an Hospital Ship, with old and sick Soldiers.

1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 51 It is proposed, that..an hospital-ship be appointed.

1888 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger 282 Numbers of poor fellows..eager to seize the first opportunity of boarding the hospital-ship.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 6/2 The American hospital-ship Maine.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 172 Swinging at top speed down the line to the base and the hospital ship and home.

1944 F. Clune Red Heart 12 I've seen my mates consigned to the deep on a hospital ship..in war-time.

hospital steward n. (a) a non-commissioned staff-officer in the U.S. army who makes up prescriptions, administers medicine, and has general charge, under the direction of an army surgeon, of the sick and of hospital property; (b) in the navy, the designation formerly given to the apothecary ( Cent. Dict.).

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics

orderly1778

hospital steward1856

stretcher-man1874

stretcher-bearer1876

stretcher-party1884

hospital corps1899

hospital corpsman1901

sanitar1916

corpsman1941

1856 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) 350 Besides the sick, hospital steward, hospital attendants, and some three others, there will be no troops.

1895 Outing Dec. 255/2 The non-commissioned staff comprises a sergeant-major, a quarter master-sergeant, a commissary-sergeant, and a hospital steward.

Hospital Sunday n. a particular Sunday in the year on which collections of money are made in the places of worship of a town or district for the local hospitals.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > day for collecting for hospitals

Hospital Sunday1873

1873 Punch 1 Feb. 43/2 Munificence to medical charities upon ‘Hospital Sunday’.

1876 J. Irving Ann. Time (ed. 2) Suppl. [June] 15 [1873].—The first ‘Hospital Sunday’ held in London; above 27,400l. collected in connection with the different services.

hospital train n. a train for conveying wounded soldiers from the front to the base hospitals.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train carrying troops > specific

hospital train1874

leave train1915

1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels i. xxiv. 162 The saddest train upon which the writer ever took passage was the Hospital Train, with its maimed and mangled burden.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 172 That he might be lying warm and comfortable in the soothing ease of a bed in the hospital train.

1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life iv. 51 I spent my twenty first birthday in a hospital train... The Medical Officer in charge..was an old school friend.

hospital ulcer n. = hospital gangrene n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of

fever sore1731

white gangrene1753

hospital ulcer1799

hospital gangrene1813

mildew-mortification1817

caseation1868

phosphorus necrosis1869

gaseous gangrene1882

coagulation necrosis1883

phossy jaw1889

phos1892

gas gangrene1896

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 430 Ulcers..which are known by the term of hospital ulcers.

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ˈhospital v. (transitive) to place in a hospital.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > place in hospital [verb (transitive)]

hospital1840

hospitalize1901

1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 182 Like a deserving pensioner, hospitalled in the comfort..of fond protection.

Draft additions 1997

hospital trust n. in the U.K., a self-governing administrative body within the National Health Service, comprising a hospital (or often a group of neighbouring hospitals) which has withdrawn from local health authority control.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > health service > N.H.S. trust

hospital trust1989

NHS trust1989

1989 Independent 4 Nov. 3/1 Mr Clarke has still knocked some district bids off the list. The St George's teaching hospital trust—which was virtually the whole of the Wandsworth health authority's services—is currently excluded, for example.

1993 Private Eye 4 June 10/3 At St Clements hospital in Bow, part of the Royal London hospital trust.

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hospital corner n. chiefly in plural (a) skirting or flooring fitted in such a way as to facilitate cleaning and reduce the accumulation of dust and debris, typically with a smooth sloping surface where the wall and floor meet; (b) an overlapping fold used to tuck sheets neatly and tightly under the mattress at the corners, in a manner traditionally used in hospitals.

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1906 Outlook 2 June 292/1 The upper three floors will be the hotel proper, consisting of 287 single rooms, each..furnished with hospital corners, so that every morning they may be thoroughly and perfectly cleansed.

1907 Elyria (Ohio) Chron. 22 Aug. 3/3 You are not making that bed properly... I told you I wanted hospital corners.

1967 N.Y. Times 18/1 A tousled-haired young counselor..pleasantly advised an 8-year-old on how to turn a ‘hospital corner’ as he made up his bunk.

1988 Taxon 37 893 The floors of herbaria should best be a smooth vinyl laid with ‘hospital corners’ to eliminate cracks and crevices that serve as habitats for fungi and insects.

2004 Independent 19 May 34/3 She taught us to read and write before we went to school and how to do hospital corners before we went to prep school.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hospital
释义	hospitaln. Brit. /ˈhɒspɪtl/, U.S. /ˈhɑˌspɪd(ə)l/ Forms: Also Middle English hospitayle, Middle English–1500s hospyt-, Middle English–1600s -ale, Middle English–1600s -alle, Middle English–1700s -all, (Middle English ospytalle, nospytalle). Etymology: < Old French hospital, modern French hôpital, < medieval Latin hospitāle place of reception for guests, neuter singular of hospitālis (see hospital adj.). Of this word, hostel n.¹ and hotel n. are doublets, and spital n. an aphetized form. 1. A house or hostel for the reception and entertainment of pilgrims, travellers, and strangers; a hospice. Hence, one of the establishments of the Knights Hospitallers. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. schooleOE hospitalc1300 khanc1400 xenodochy?c1550 posting inn1556 vent1577 caravanserai1585 yam1587 serai1609 venta1610 post-house1611 xenodochium1612 imaret1613 seraglio1617 rancho1648 hospitium1650 watering-house1664 choultry1698 accommodation house1787 stage-house1788 spital1794 stand1805 resthouse1807 hospice1818 resting1879 stopping house1883 truck stop1961 c1300 Beket 84 Ther is nouth an hospital arerd of Seint Thomas. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 135 To temples in Acres he quath fiue þousand marke, & fiue thousand to þe hospitale. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) x. 40 Before þe kirke..es a grete hospitale..of whilk þe hospitalleres hase þaire first fundacion. c1500 Melusine (1895) 122 How they chaced two galleyes of the hospytal of Rodes. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 24 §2 The said William Weston or any of his bretherne or confreers of the said Hospitall or house of Sainct John of Hierusalem in England. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 103 The countrey of Prussia, which the Dutch knights of the order of Saint Maries hospitall of Ierusalem haue of late wholly conquered and subdued. 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1798) iii. 52 An adjacent hospital founded by the princess Hippolita for the reception of pilgrims. 2. a. A charitable institution for the housing and maintenance of the needy; an asylum for the destitute, infirm, or aged. Obsolete except in English legal use and in proper names like Greenwich Hospital, originally a home for superannuated seamen. 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 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 719/16 A nospytalle. 1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 31 I bequethe to þe pore hospitales..to eueryche hospitall, to parte a-monge pore folk, there xx s. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cc An olde and riche Hospitall, dedicated to Saincte Leonarde, in the whiche Almosehouse the poore and indigente people were harbored. 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 5 Yee know the hospitall at the townes ende, wherein the freemen decaied are releaued. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 44 Send into England for rug Gownes, such as poor people wear in Hospitalls. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 38 We go by St. Cross [Winchester] a large hospitall for old men and I thinke most is for ye decayed schollars. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 316/2 Hospitals intended merely for the relief of poor and indigent persons in England are peculiarly called Alms-houses. †b. A house for the corporate lodging of students in a university; a hostel or hall. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence hospital1536 hostel1536 pensionary1583 inn1655 hotel1748 residence1828 bursa1831 residence hall1857 dormitory1865 hall1879 hospice1895 hospitium1895 1536 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 42 §1 Halles Hostelles Hospitalles. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. *3^v Saint Iohns in Cambridge, that at that time was..shining so farre aboue all other Houses, Halls, and Hospitalls. 1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example* iii. i England, instead of being..the Hospital of Fools wou'd be an entire College of Learned Men. c. A charitable institution for the education and maintenance of the young. Now only in Scottish legal use and in names of ancient institutions such as Christ's Hospital, London, and Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor hospital1552 charity-school1682 Blue Coat Hospital1700 blue coat school1706 poor school1727 national school1814 industrial school1827 ragged school1843 kitchengarten1877 barrack school1894 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hospitall for children to be brought up, brephotrophia. 1598 B. Jonson Euery Man in his Humor ii. i I tooke him of a child, up, at my doore..gave him mine owne name Thomas, Since bred him at the hospitall. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 164 Among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 347/2 An hospital..is sometimes a place of learning, as Christ's Hospital, London. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 275/1 Edinburgh has some noble hospitals and charitable institutions. Among these are..Heriot's Hospital..Watson's Hospitals, Merchant-Maiden and Trades'-Maiden Hospitals, Orphan Hospital, and Gillespie's Hospital. 1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) v. 118 She was brought up in one of the hospitals here. 1880 Chambers's Encycl. Hospital, in Law..in Scotland more frequently signifies a mortification or endowment for the education as well as support of children. 3. spec. a. An institution or establishment for the care of the sick or wounded, or of those who require medical treatment. (The current sense.)Such institutions are either public or private, free or paying,—or both combined,—general or special with respect to the diseases treated. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary maison dieu1354 fermery1377 leech-house1483 sick-house1491 hospital1549 infirmitorya1552 guest house1600 infirmatory1603 valetudinary1623 infirmary1625 nosocome1653 hôtel-Dieuc1660 hothouse1707 sanity-institution1799 butcher's shop1890 c1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) xliii Oure hoely places, callyd the Priory of seynt Bartholomew yn Smythfyld, and..the hospital by olde tyme longyng to the same.] 1549 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 137 For the better sustentation and comforte of the diseased and impotent persons within the said hospitall. 1552 Ordre Hospital S. Bartholomewes Pref. sig. A.v This Hospital..Where..there haue bene healed of the pocques, fystules, filthie blaynes and sores, to the nombre of .viij. hundred. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 617 An Hospitall, or spittle for poore folkes diseased. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 299 The money..is sent to the Hospitals of the diseased. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 88 Physicians, surgeons, and others who attend hospitals, ought, for their own sake, to take care that they be properly ventilated. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 85 A Roman Lady..founded at Rome as an act of penance the first public hospital. figurative and in extended use.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §11 For the world, I count it not an Inne, but an Hospitall, and a place, not to live, but to die in. View more context for this quotation1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace x. 217 The world is a great Hospital full of sick and dying souls, all wounded by one and the same mortal weapon, sin. b. A similar establishment for the treatment of sick or injured animals. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > animal hospital hospital1613 banian-hospital1813 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 482 The publike Hospitall, which the Citizens..had founded for all kindes of Birds, to cure them in their sicknesse. 1884 Daily News 23 July 7/1 The Great Northern Railway has just set up a hospital for their sick or injured horses. c. Short for hospital ship n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship hospital ship1683 pest shipa1684 hospital1709 hospital vessel1897 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel for reception of sick or injured hospital ship1683 pest shipa1684 hospital1709 victim-ship1835 hospital vessel1897 1709 London Gaz. No. 4562/3 Her Majesty's Ships the Dover..Pembroke-Hospital, and Carcass-Bomb. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6141/3 Serpent Bomb, Smirna Factor Hospital. d. in (into) hospital: under medical treatment in a hospital. In quot. 1885, transferred of vessels. ΚΠ 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iii. 113 More than half the survivors were in hospital. 1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xxii. 305 I saw the absolute necessity of his gun~boats going into hospital. †4. A house of entertainment; ‘open house’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > house of entertainment hospitalc1475 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 33 Ne coueytous of foul wynning, but to holde hospital. 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C The house where Lamilia (for so wee call the Curtizan) kept her hospitall. †5. A place of lodging. In first quot. figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place nestOE inningOE hostela1325 lodgingsc1380 lodging-place14.. entry1457 logis1477 hospital?a1513 stay1566 lodge1571 allodgement1598 lodgementa1701 gite1798 put-up1844 hang-out1852 shebang1867 stash1927 pad1935 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 85 Hospitall riall, the lord of all Thy closet did include. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xii. 74 An unclene spirite..banished from his olde hospital. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V4^v They spide a goodly castle..Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, They thether marcht. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. hospital-assistant n. ΚΠ 1826 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Observ. Surg. (ed. 2) 168 Examined during the night by the nurse of the ward, or by an hospital-assistant. hospital birth n. ΚΠ 1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 53 That the hospital-birth be appointed..between decks. hospital management n. hospital nurse n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types man-nurse1530 probationer nurse1584 parish nurse1716 day nurse1759 school nurse1836 Gamp1846 hospital nurse1848 pupil nurse1861 male nurse1874 district nurse1883 relief nurse1884 casualty nurse1885 bayman1888 maid nurse1895 charge-nurse1896 ward nurse1899 health visitor1901 practice nurse1912 community nurse1922 scrub nurse1927 theatre nurse1934 para-nurse1942 nurse practitioner1967 rehab nurse1977 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 514 Women..who are hospital-nurses without wages. 1893 O. Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan iv. 120 You would like me to retire into a convent or become a hospital nurse, or something of that kind. 1936 A. Thirkell August Folly ix. 265 Jessica got up and the hospital nurse left. 1962 A. Christie Mirror Crack'd ii. 13 In real illness you could have a proper hospital nurse, at vast expense and procured with difficulty, or you could go to hospital. hospital practice n. hospital surgeon n. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 187 One reason why nurses, and perhaps hospital-surgeons escape so often without injury. hospital tent n. ΚΠ 1812 Niles' Reg. 2 131/1 300 hospital, horsemen's and common tents. 1862 G. B. McClellan Let. 31 July in Own Story (1887) 458 They are nearly all in hospital-tents and are well provided for. 1936 C. Day Lewis Friendly Tree i. 14 Holding the wound shut..until he reaches the hospital tent. hospital vessel n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship hospital ship1683 pest shipa1684 hospital1709 hospital vessel1897 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel for reception of sick or injured hospital ship1683 pest shipa1684 hospital1709 victim-ship1835 hospital vessel1897 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 620 The true sanatorium for the Coast would be a hospital vessel attached to each district. b. hospital-treated adj. C2. hospital bed n. (a) a (metal) bed as used in hospitals, higher than an ordinary bed to facilitate nursing, and frequently adjustable in several ways; also hospital bedstead; (b) an available place in hospital for a bed patient. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > bed for sick person > in hospital hospital bed1823 pay-bed1855 cot1874 bed1881 orthopaedic bed1943 amenity bed1948 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hospital bed hospital bed1823 cot1874 the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > available place in hospital hospital bed1952 1823 C. Mathews Let. 7 Feb. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) III. 365 I slept in a bed on the road without even posts for curtains—a regular hospital-bed. 1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing viii. 47 Hospital bedsteads are..very much less objectionable than private ones. 1952 Oxf. Junior Encycl. X. 190/2 Small sums paid weekly during health might entitle contributors to a hospital bed in time of need. 1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 55/1 He lends people hospital beds, which he happened to get at a good price. 1973 C. Mullard Black Brit. iv. 46 Overnight, blacks were suddenly held responsible for the unemployment figures.., lack of adequate social services, schools and hospital beds. hospital blue n. (also hospital blues) the blue uniform worn by wounded soldiers in the wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for members of a body or association > naval, military, etc. > types of regimentals1728 undress1748 regiments1759 regimental1764 dress uniform1774 kit1785 roast beef coat1802 butternut1810 frock-uniform1810 fatigue-dress1834 fatigue1836 fatigue-uniform1836 shirtsleeve order1854 grey1862 scarlet runnerc1864 square-rig1875 rig of the day1877 swagger-dress1901 trench coat1914 hospital blue1919 romper1922 suntan1937 battle-dress1938 army greens1945 mess kit1953 tiger suit1970 1919 ‘I. Hay’ Last Million (new ed.) vi. 67 Convalescent soldiers in hospital blue. 1920 J. M. Barrie Kiss for Cinderella iii. 109 Danny, who is slightly lame and is in hospital blue. 1920 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 3/3 The ‘airers’ of wounded soldiers were dreaming of jaunts without hospital blue. 1957 R. Campbell Portugal ii. 29 I was clothed in army hospital-blues. 1973 B. Turner Hot-foot iv. 20 Some day I would be spotted as a wanted man by someone who knew me either in khaki or in hospital blues. hospital-boy n. a boy brought up at a hospital, a charity-boy. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 210 A thing only fit for alms-men and hospital-boys. hospital corps n. the medical corps in the U.S. Navy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics orderly1778 hospital steward1856 stretcher-man1874 stretcher-bearer1876 stretcher-party1884 hospital corps1899 hospital corpsman1901 sanitar1916 corpsman1941 1899 Statutes at Large U.S.A. XXX. 474 June 17 1898..Be it enacted..That a hospital corps of the United States Navy is hereby established. 1945 Amer. Handbk. (Office War Information) xxvi. 386 Men of the Hospital Corps include pharmacists... They may be found in the amphibious units of the Marine Corps, in the dressing stations of warships, and in submarines. hospital corpsman n. (cf. corpsman n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics orderly1778 hospital steward1856 stretcher-man1874 stretcher-bearer1876 stretcher-party1884 hospital corps1899 hospital corpsman1901 sanitar1916 corpsman1941 1901 E. Root in R. Bacon & J. B. Scott Mil. & Colonial Policy U.S. (1916) 374 An order was made fixing the enlisted strength..exclusive of hospital corps men, at 77,287. 1943 Sci. News Let. 29 May 343 Soon a Hospital Corpsman with a larger kit of supplies comes along and quickly ministers to the wounded man. hospital fever n. a kind of typhus fever arising in crowded hospitals from the poisonous condition of the atmosphere due to exhalations from diseased bodies. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid putrid fever1597 pestilential fever1617 tabardillo1624 synochus1625 Hungaric fever1661 typhus1664 military fever1736 jail distemper1745 hospital fever1750 jail-fever1754 ship-fever1758 typhus fever1780 typhoid fever1789 gastric fever1802 dothinenteritis1826 enteric fever1833 typhoid1837 pythogenic fever1858 thanatotyphus1860 typh fever1861 enteric1872 famine-fever1876 Red River fever1878 laryngo-typhus1888 laryngo-typhoid1896 typh fever1900 paratyphoid1904 1750 Pringle (title) Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jail Fevers. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 190 It [sc. putrid fever] possesses the additional names of Jail, Camp, and Hospital Fever. hospital gangrene n. a spreading, sloughing, gangrenous inflammation starting from a wound and arising in crowded hospitals; also called sloughing phagedæna. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of fever sore1731 white gangrene1753 hospital ulcer1799 hospital gangrene1813 mildew-mortification1817 caseation1868 phosphorus necrosis1869 gaseous gangrene1882 coagulation necrosis1883 phossy jaw1889 phos1892 gas gangrene1896 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 456 The particular ulcer, to which surgeons now give the name of malignant ulcer, or hospital gangrene. hospital letter n. a letter referring a patient for free treatment in a hospital. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > letter referring patient to hospital hospital paper1838 hospital letter1890 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. iii. 26 He had hoped to have obtained a hospital letter at the Mansion House so as to obtain a truss for a bad rupture. hospital-man n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital attendant > aboard ship hospital mate1809 hospital-man1827 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 220 I also allow each captain of the deck and hospital-man two pounds of tobacco for use on the voyage. hospital mate n. an assistant in a hospital on board ship. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital attendant > aboard ship hospital mate1809 hospital-man1827 1809 Duke of Wellington Let. to Ld. Liverpool 7 Dec. in Dispatches (1838) V. 341 I also hope your Lordship will..send us out Hospital Mates. hospital paper n. = hospital letter n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > letter referring patient to hospital hospital paper1838 hospital letter1890 1838 C. M. Yonge Let. 25 Sept. in C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge (1903) iv. 139 Mr. Rudd, the tall man we took the hospital paper to, is dead. 1890 C. M. Yonge More Bywords 260 Jane Cox is come for a hospital paper, ma'am. hospital pass n. Rugby etc., a pass to a player likely to be tackled heavily as soon as he receives it. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres holding1866 hand-balling1867 left-footer1874 header1875 handball1879 goal kick1881 corner1882 spot kick1884 middle1899 clearance1920 cross-kick1927 cross-pass1929 body swerve1933 open goal1934 headball1936 chip1939 through-ball1956 wall pass1958 outswinger1959 cross1961 overlap1969 blooter1976 hospital pass1978 route one1978 sidefoot1979 top bin1999 ankle-biting2001 1978 Times 27 Nov. 9/3 The centres were always cramped for room, but the distribution was not always quick or accurate enough and hospital passes were not unknown. 1986 Guardian 17 Mar. 29/7 It was not exactly a hospital pass but... He made three yards before he was smothered. hospital porter n. (see porter n.¹). Hospital Saturday n. a particular Saturday in the year on which collections of money for the local hospitals are organized in workshops, in the streets, and elsewhere. hospital ship n. (a) a vessel fitted up for the reception and treatment of sick and wounded seamen; so hospital berth, hospital cabin, hospital hulk, hospital vessel; (b) a ship for conveying sick and wounded soldiers to their own country or to an area remote from the battlefield. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship hospital ship1683 pest shipa1684 hospital1709 hospital vessel1897 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel for reception of sick or injured hospital ship1683 pest shipa1684 hospital1709 victim-ship1835 hospital vessel1897 1683 London Gaz. No. 1877/4 The Swallow is arrived in the Downs..as likewise an Hospital Ship, with old and sick Soldiers. 1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 51 It is proposed, that..an hospital-ship be appointed. 1888 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger 282 Numbers of poor fellows..eager to seize the first opportunity of boarding the hospital-ship. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 6/2 The American hospital-ship Maine. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 172 Swinging at top speed down the line to the base and the hospital ship and home. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 12 I've seen my mates consigned to the deep on a hospital ship..in war-time. hospital steward n. (a) a non-commissioned staff-officer in the U.S. army who makes up prescriptions, administers medicine, and has general charge, under the direction of an army surgeon, of the sick and of hospital property; (b) in the navy, the designation formerly given to the apothecary ( Cent. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics orderly1778 hospital steward1856 stretcher-man1874 stretcher-bearer1876 stretcher-party1884 hospital corps1899 hospital corpsman1901 sanitar1916 corpsman1941 1856 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) 350 Besides the sick, hospital steward, hospital attendants, and some three others, there will be no troops. 1895 Outing Dec. 255/2 The non-commissioned staff comprises a sergeant-major, a quarter master-sergeant, a commissary-sergeant, and a hospital steward. Hospital Sunday n. a particular Sunday in the year on which collections of money are made in the places of worship of a town or district for the local hospitals. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > day for collecting for hospitals Hospital Sunday1873 1873 Punch 1 Feb. 43/2 Munificence to medical charities upon ‘Hospital Sunday’. 1876 J. Irving Ann. Time (ed. 2) Suppl. [June] 15 [1873].—The first ‘Hospital Sunday’ held in London; above 27,400l. collected in connection with the different services. hospital train n. a train for conveying wounded soldiers from the front to the base hospitals. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train carrying troops > specific hospital train1874 leave train1915 1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels i. xxiv. 162 The saddest train upon which the writer ever took passage was the Hospital Train, with its maimed and mangled burden. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 172 That he might be lying warm and comfortable in the soothing ease of a bed in the hospital train. 1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life iv. 51 I spent my twenty first birthday in a hospital train... The Medical Officer in charge..was an old school friend. hospital ulcer n. = hospital gangrene n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of fever sore1731 white gangrene1753 hospital ulcer1799 hospital gangrene1813 mildew-mortification1817 caseation1868 phosphorus necrosis1869 gaseous gangrene1882 coagulation necrosis1883 phossy jaw1889 phos1892 gas gangrene1896 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 430 Ulcers..which are known by the term of hospital ulcers. Derivatives ˈhospital v. (transitive) to place in a hospital. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > place in hospital [verb (transitive)] hospital1840 hospitalize1901 1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 182 Like a deserving pensioner, hospitalled in the comfort..of fond protection. Draft additions 1997 hospital trust n. in the U.K., a self-governing administrative body within the National Health Service, comprising a hospital (or often a group of neighbouring hospitals) which has withdrawn from local health authority control. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > health service > N.H.S. trust hospital trust1989 NHS trust1989 1989 Independent 4 Nov. 3/1 Mr Clarke has still knocked some district bids off the list. The St George's teaching hospital trust—which was virtually the whole of the Wandsworth health authority's services—is currently excluded, for example. 1993 Private Eye 4 June 10/3 At St Clements hospital in Bow, part of the Royal London hospital trust. Draft additions September 2016 hospital corner n. chiefly in plural (a) skirting or flooring fitted in such a way as to facilitate cleaning and reduce the accumulation of dust and debris, typically with a smooth sloping surface where the wall and floor meet; (b) an overlapping fold used to tuck sheets neatly and tightly under the mattress at the corners, in a manner traditionally used in hospitals. ΚΠ 1906 Outlook 2 June 292/1 The upper three floors will be the hotel proper, consisting of 287 single rooms, each..furnished with hospital corners, so that every morning they may be thoroughly and perfectly cleansed. 1907 Elyria (Ohio) Chron. 22 Aug. 3/3 You are not making that bed properly... I told you I wanted hospital corners. 1967 N.Y. Times 18/1 A tousled-haired young counselor..pleasantly advised an 8-year-old on how to turn a ‘hospital corner’ as he made up his bunk. 1988 Taxon 37 893 The floors of herbaria should best be a smooth vinyl laid with ‘hospital corners’ to eliminate cracks and crevices that serve as habitats for fungi and insects. 2004 Independent 19 May 34/3 She taught us to read and write before we went to school and how to do hospital corners before we went to prep school. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † hospitaladj. Etymology: < Latin hospitālis hospitable, < hospes , hospit-em host, guest: see host n.² and -al suffix¹. Obsolete. 1. = hospitable adj. a. Of persons. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > [adjective] > hospitable harborous1526 hospitable1570 hospital1570 harboursome1584 hospitalious1596 hospitious?1611 entertaining1640 xenodochial1716 open-housed1804 open house1836 open-doored1842 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Bi/2 Hospitall, hospitalis. 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 307 And it is said that a Bishop..should be hospitall, that is an entertainer of strangers. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. vii. 410 For men they had not an Hospitall that were thus Hospitall to Fowles. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 27 Their Gentry brave and Hospital. b. Of things, qualities, feelings, etc. ΚΠ 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. xl. 1138 Hospitall and friendly courtesies. 1638 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 222 Her kinde hospitall grace. 1706 J. Potter Archæologia Græca (ed. 2) II. iv. xxi. 416 He had contemn'd the Salt, and overturn'd the Hospital Table. 2. hospital Jove, Jupiter, or God, a translation of Latin hospitālis or Greek ξένιος ‘protector of the rights of hospitality’; also of Greek ξενικός. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter > as god of hospitality hospital Jove, Jupiter, or Godc1384 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. vi. 2 Thei weren, that enhabitiden the place, of Iouis hospitale [L. Iovis hospitalis]. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxx. ii. 380 In the very sight of the Hospitall God. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1052 They are sacred to hospital Jupiter. 1706 J. Potter Archæologia Græca (ed. 2) II. iv. xxi. 416 Out of a pious regard to the Hospital Alliance. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xx. 93 Στέϕανοι ξενικοὶ, hospital crowns. 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