| 单词 | religious house | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasreligious house   religious house  n.				 [after Middle French maison religieuse (1280 in Old French as meson relegieuse; French maison religieuse)]			 a house or building inhabited by a religious order; an abbey, monastery, convent, etc.; cf. house n.1 and int. Phrases 3a. ΚΠ a1450    St. Edith 		(Faust.)	 		(1883)	 l. 128 (MED)  				Religyose houses in mony a plase For goddys loue he let þo make. a1538    T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset 		(1989)	 29  				Settyng themsefe in relygyouse housys ther quyetly to serve god. 1664    J. Dryden Rival Ladies  ii. i. 27  				If you will needs to a Religious house. 1742    Ld. Chesterfield Lett. 		(1932)	 		(modernized text)	 II. 512  				He dissolved the monasteries and religious houses in England. 1856    P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 115 		(note)	  				In religious houses they had a register..wherein they entered the obits or obitual days of their founders and benefactors. 1909    Encycl. Relig. & Ethics II. 77/2  				Thus arose the practice of self-flagellation, first introduced in certain religious houses of Central Italy. 2008    Bolton News 		(Nexis)	 4 Dec.  				The wine was currently used by a number of parishes and religious houses across the UK. < as lemmas  | 
	
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