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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Formerly, a hospital or an almshouse for the founders and benefactors of which prayers were required to be said by the beneficiaries. Also spelled bedehouse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. historical An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

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  1. Old English bede prayer + English house. (Wiktionary)

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  1. bedehouse

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