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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

spital

/spit-l/US // ˈspɪt l //UK // (ˈspɪtəl) //

医院,诊所

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : a hospital, especially one for lazars.
    • : a shelter on a highway.

Examples

  • The preacher of the Spital sermon this year is to be a life-long abstainer, the Bishop of Carlisle.

  • The pulpit stood on a site that now forms the north-east corner of Spital Square.

  • There was a leper-spital outside the Gallow-gate of Aberdeen, on a road which still bears the name of the Spital.

  • So again the Normans spital at Norwich was found to be sheltering seven whole sisters and seven half-sisters.

  • On the third day in Easter week, the 'Spital sermon is preached by a doctor in divinity.

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