lazar-house

plural lazar-houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of lazar house.

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

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

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   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.

   1822, Daniel Lysons, Magna Britannia;: The county palatine of Chester, page 601

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

   1828, William Henry Ireland, England's topographer

   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:

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