Spital

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means. historical

    "Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburb of Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9675).
  2. 2
    An eastern suburb of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3970).
  3. 3
    A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3483).

Example

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"Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.

Etymology 2

See spital.

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Owmby-by-Spital

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