| 单词 | house of piety |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse of piety house of piety n. [perhaps after Italian (now hist.) casa di pietà (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: 1609 or earlier)] now archaic and historical a charitable house, as a hospital, poorhouse, or the like, established for reasons of piety; (also) a religious house, as a monastery, convent, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] minstereOE monklifeeOE clausterc1000 abbotricOE house?a1160 anchor-house?c1225 religion?c1225 abbeyc1300 nunneryc1300 house (also abbey) of religiona1325 nunryc1325 closterc1330 cloister1340 monasterya1425 monk-house?c1475 friars1479 convent1528 guild1546 prioressy1575 abbey-stead1620 minchery1710 reclusory1821 akhara1838 house of piety1838 kloster1844 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 22 Another thing very memorable and imitable in Italy, is the exceeding good provision of Hospitalls and houses of Pietie. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Worlde 89 Amongst other religious places..there is the house of pietie, called il Monte della pieta [It. Tra gli altri luoghi pij..vi è il monte della pietà], which..may dispend yeerely 60000. crownes. 1701 in Lett. Wit, Politicks, & Morality vi. xxv. 295 A certain Wind call'd..Gallicia Wind..very often from a Neighbouring Brothel..carries the Pox into a House of Piety. 1838 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 704/2 Far from exhibiting the demure abstraction which one thinks of as proper to a house of piety, [the monks] were engaged in eager..chat. 1984 J. C. Cruz Relics xiii. 292 The incorrupt hand, enshrined in a golden reliquary, is the hand that signed orders for the building of numerous houses of piety. < as lemmas |
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