Infirmary
[ɪn'fɜːm(ə)rɪ] or [ɪn'fɝməri]
Definition
(n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.
Edited by Charlene
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you leave an infirmary, denotes your escape from wily enemies who will cause you much worry. See Hospital.
Checker: Roy
Examples
- No--let the new Hospital be joined with the old Infirmary, and everything go on as it might have done if I had never come. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Where is this infirmary? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I must work the harder, that's all, and I have given up my post at the Infirmary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Meanwhile when Nancy presented herself at the Infirmary, it happened to be one of Lydgate's days there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With regard to the old infirmary, we have gained the initial point--I mean your election. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Being far too ill to remain in the common prison, he was removed, after the first day or so, into the infirmary. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Walter Tyke became chaplain to the Infirmary, and Lydgate continued to work with Mr. Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe you were the magistrate who attended to take down the deposition of a poor man who died in the Infirmary last night. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Now a point which I have much at heart to secure is a new regulation as to clerical attendance at the old infirmary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Perry