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lǽce-hús

  • noun [ neuter ]
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lǽce-hús, es; n.
A hospital, a house where the sick are tended by a leech
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  • Hé hine gelǽdde on his lǽcehús [Lind. lécehús] and hine lácnude And brohte óðrum dæge twegen penegas and sealde ðam lǽce and ðus cwæþ Begým hys

    illum duxit in stabulum et curam ejus egit. Et altera die protulit duos denarios et dedit stabulario et ait curam illius habe,

    • Lk. Skt. 10, 34-5.
    [The translator seems not to have kept close to the text, but to have rendered the passage in accordance with the part played by the Good Samaritan. A more literal translation is given Past. 17, 10; Swt. 125 where

    in stabulum

    is rendered

    tó ðæm giesðhúse

    .]
Etymology
[
Prompt. Parv. a leche house laniena, quia infirmi ibi laniantur, p. 291, note 4.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lǽce-hús.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/20919.

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