leproseryn.
/lɛˈprəʊs(ə)ri/, U.S. /lɛˈproʊs(ə)ri/ Chiefly historical.
= leprosarium n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > leper-house or lazaretto
mesel house?a1400
mesel-cote1402
malantary?a1425
maladerie1461
lazar-cote1470
lazar-house1530
lazaretto1549
lazarus-house1560
leper house1574
pest-house1594
lazaret1611
leprosery1792
leper asylum1818
leprosy1834
leprosarium1869
1792 J. Foot Compl. Treat. Origin, Theory, & Cure Lues Venerea ii. 79 There were separate houses for them at Paris, named Maladaries and Leproseries.
1818 Friend of India Aug. 92 Lewis VIII, king of France, made bequests in the year 1227 to two thousand Leprosaries within his own dominions.
1866 Archaeol. Jrnl. 23 212 Here stood the Hospital of the Holy Innocents, called the Maladerie, Malandery, or Leprosery.
1891 Cent. Mag. Feb. 592 Mother Marianne would herself have written, but she was called away to the leprosery.
1906 Med. Bull. 28 336/2 The city of Zanzibar has three hospitals and a leprosery.
1961 G. Greene Burnt-out Case i. ii. 13 There was a rule that the leproserie should take contagious cases only.
1975 W. R. Thomson Friars in Cathedral iii. 56 The statutes for the leprosary at Schwartau..may date in fact from 1258.
2000 Speculum 75 631 The maison-dieu and leprosery of Saint-Aignan conform to well-known patterns governing the siting of medieval hospitals at the confines of towns or villages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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