Crossword clues for infirmary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infirmary \In*firm"a*ry\ ([i^]n*f[~e]rm"[.a]*r[y^]), n.; pl. Infirmaries (-r[i^]z). [Cf. OE. fermerie, OF. enfermerie, F. infirmerie, LL. infirmaria. See Infirm.] A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "sick bay in a monastery," from Medieval Latin infirmaria "a place for the infirm," from Latin infirmus "weak, frail," (see infirm). The common name for a public hospital in 18c. England.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse. 2 A clinic or dispensary within another institution.
WordNet
n. a health facility where patients receive treatment [syn: hospital]
Wikipedia
The Infirmary, now known as the Student Health Care Center, is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. It was designed by Rudolph Weaver in the Collegiate Gothic style and was built in 1931. Since 1983, it has served as a student outpatient clinic.
The Infirmary is a contributing property in the University of Florida Campus Historic District. On April 20, 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Usage examples of "infirmary".
Humantown, to the infirmary, where she was dressed in warm hospital whites and put to bed with graduated doses of some gentle anxiolytic drug.
Visions of a workhouse infirmary for her child had haunted the old woman in the basement breakfast-room of the decayed Belgravian house.
Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.
It might be that the Healers Ward had no extant Ladders but the one to the Academy Infirmary, and even that might be dead.
But she said little of her own unflagging attention to the ailing sisters in the infirmary, or how her omnicompetence positioned her as a likely candidate to become mother abbess.
When Oran and Zell appeared at the infirmary door, I was already inside.
The sign revealed he was beside Turboshaft 3, which told him exactly how far away his Infirmary was.
But the light has shown him Baramji sitting with Linnix in the loungers outside the infirmary, not three meters to his left.
As Stareem closes the infirmary door behind them, Prince Pao, grinning, takes up an extravagantly bellicose sentinel station before the line of little ruby lights.
Zannez yelling from the lounge and Pao is silently opening the door between infirmary and bar.
A city map in her hand, she walked through busy streets, past Worcester College, the Oxford University Press, and the rear of the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Normally Baram would take him at once to the infirmary for a full cephalic scan, but now he must stay here and watch for some possible opportunity to help Cory, however unlikely.
He said he was Severinus of Sankt Wendel, and he was the brother herbalist, in charge of the balneary, the infirmary, the gardens, and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound.
He moved through the main section of the infirmary, past a series of empty biobeds, and over to the wide door leading to the intensive-care section.
The first furniture to be built was the cots and stools for the infirmary, then the beds for the bunkhouses.