Meaning of lazar-house | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

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

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

“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:”

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