单词 | orphanage |
释义 | orphanagen.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > guardianship of minor or incapable person > specific orphanage1538 (in need of) care or (also and) protection1932 1538 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. ii. App. xc. 252 Al and syngler the porcyons..to be ordered according to the custome of the orphanage of the citie of London. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 214 The common Serjeant in London, an Office of considerable Account, especially in the Orphanage. 2. a. The state or condition of being an orphan. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of an orphan orphanityc1450 orphanyc1539 orphanage1579 orphancya1586 orphanism1598 orphanship1680 orphanhood1765 orphandom1892 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 237 Orphanage bringeth many discommodities to a Childe. 1624 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 10 There can fall no..orphanage upon those children, to whom God is father. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xxi. 82 A desolate creature she suffered under the worst of orphanage. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son xlviii. 480 Florence slept upon her couch, forgetful of her homelessness and orphanage. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 207 His early orphanage was not without its effect in confirming a character naturally impatient of control. 1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 30 Dec. a1 A woman with AIDS, whose child faces not just the risk of early orphanage, but an early death. b. Orphans collectively. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > orphan > collectively orphanage1810 1810 W. C. White Clergyman's Daughter iv. i. 66 No longer wring the heart of the widow, or force tears from the eye of afflicted orphanage. 1845 W. H. Maxwell Hints to Soldier I. 34 He will talk of widowed wives and unprotected orphanage. 1977 P. Laslett Family Life Earlier Generations iv. 167 The determinable level of resident orphanage. 3. An institution or home for orphans. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for orphans or children conservatory1620 orphanotrophium1673 orphan house1711 orphanotrophy1727 orphan hospital1736 foundling-house1750 foundling-hospital1756 orphan asylum1806 children's home1839 orphanage1865 protectory1865 orphanry1869 police orphanage1872 Pestalozzi children's village1946 1865 Evening Standard 7 Feb. There is..an orphanage, in which there are at present 40 children being educated at a low charge. 1890 Harper's Mag. June 102/1 Josiah Mason was a Birmingham pen-maker who accumulated a great fortune, and founded an orphanage for 400 children close to the town. 1923 H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune's Pract. vii. 186 It is an old-fashioned orphanage..as noisy as the parrot-house. 1961 H. C. Smith Personality Adjustm. xviii. 513 Children raised in negligent and understaffed orphanages are not actively rejected but suffer severe deprivation of warmth and affection. 2001 S. Strum Barcelona: Guide Archit. i. 12 The CCCB, inaugurated in 1994, is set in an old orphanage, part of a complex known as the Casa de Caritat (House of Charity). Compounds General attributive with the sense ‘of, belonging to, or relating to orphanage or an orphanage’, as orphanage child, †orphanage custom, orphanage life, orphanage money, etc. ΚΠ 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 88v His successor may in his owne name have execution of a Recognisance acknowledged to his predecessor for Orphanage money. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxxii. 519 In London the share of the children (or orphanage part) is not fully vested in them till the age of twenty-one, before which they cannot dispose of it by testament:..but after the age of twenty-one it is free from any orphanage custom. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 423 In that part of the will relating to the orphanage share. 1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes ix. 134 He hovered on the fringe of Orphanage life. 2003 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 32 Joseph Currie, the orphanage child, had something important to say, but there was no one to tell it to. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538 |
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