spital
/spit-l/US // ˈspɪt l //UK // (ˈspɪtəl) //
医院,诊所
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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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