单词 | infirmary |
释义 | infirmaryn. 1. A building or part of a building for the treatment of the sick or wounded; a hospital; esp. the sick-quarters in a religious establishment, a school, workhouse, or other institution.In the 18th cent., the common name for a public hospital: see hospital n. 3. Nearly all such institutions in English provincial towns had originally this name, which is still retained in many cases, e.g. the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, etc. 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 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 264 You must fore-see, that one of them, be for an Infirmary, if the Prince, or any Speciall Person should be Sicke. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 29 Jan. (1972) VII. 29 He intertained me with discourse of an Infirmery which he hath projected for the sick and wounded seamen. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 324 She was carried to the Infirmary, so they call it in the Religious Houses in Italy, where the sick Nuns or Friers, are carried. 1748 Bp. J. Butler Serm. Govt. London Infirm. in Wks. (1874) II. 307 There is..a necessity, in such a city as this [London], for public infirmaries. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. i. i. 8 Some of the convents are in a better taste, especially that of the Franciscans... The infirmary in particular drew our attention as a model which might be adopted in other countries. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 47 She was..admitted an out-patient, and her friends had directions given them to attend at the Infirmary on proper days for medicines. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxiii. 55 This is the port wine, ma'am, that the board ordered for the infirmary. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 243 There was not then, in the whole realm, a single infirmary supported by voluntary contribution. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > conservatory conservatory1664 conserve1664 infirmary1707 winter garden1736 plant house1800 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. Pref. By means of Stoves and Infirmaries, many of them have come to greater perfection, than in any part of Europe. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxxi. 106 I ordered the Infirmary-Keeper to bring him into the Ward. 1816 in A.C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 161 He was detected by the vigilance of the Infirmary serjeant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1625 |
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