单词 | bead-house |
释义 | > as lemmasbead-house bead-house n. (northern dialect beadus Welsh Bettws), originally a house of prayer, hence an alms-house, the inmates of which were to pray for the soul of the founder. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > oratory > [noun] bead-housec1160 oratorya1382 oratourc1400 oraculum1565 proseucha1602 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 c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xxi. 13 Min hus ys bed-hus [Ags. G. gebed-hus]. 1485 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 277 The bedehouse beside the Mawdelayns. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 180 Lodgyns and bed-howses for x poor men. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Beadus or Beadhouse, an almshouse. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 126 They raised full many a bede~house, but never a bastile. < as lemmas |
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