lazar-houseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

lazar-house (複数形 lazar-houses)

1. Alternative form of lazar house
   • 1822, Daniel Lysons, Magna Britannia;: The county palatine of Chester, page 601:

     John Gilbert, in his deed of 1538, states, that he had purchased three messuages and two little closes adjoining, by the highway-side near Newton Bushell, and that it was his intention to build a lazar-house, for the reception of a greater number of lazars than the three cottages would contain, with a chapel ; the house and the closes to be occupied by the said lazars : he gives the sum of 220 marks to the corporation, on condition that they should pay yearly the sum of 4l. per annum to the lazars in the said house.

   • 1828, William Henry Ireland, England's topographer:

     In 1473 there existed a lazar-house for the reception of those afflicted with leprosy, at Eche near Sandwich.

   • 2000, ‎Robert W. Thomson, The Lawcode (Datastanagirk') of Mxit'ar Goš, →ISBN, page 241:

     Let them seize the woman and put her in a lazar-house, and for a year let her grind [flour] for the lepers.

   • 2012, John Hoyles, The Waning of the Renaissance 1640–1740, →ISBN:

     In The Ruin and Recovery of Mankind (1740), Watts takes up the old 17th century view of the world as a hospital or lazar-house:

語源

From lazar +‎ house.