Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer in a monastery who has charge of the quarters for the sick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who works in a
nunnery ormonastery , caring for thenuns who became ill, as well as caring for other old and sick people living in the nunnery.
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Examples
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Then, after every other verse, he would repeat, with a pause: "Tibi soli peccavi et malum coram te feci… He uttered the words plaintively, sighing profoundly and weeping, and moved with such a lofty idea of God and of His infinite sanctity that the Brother infirmarian was siezed with a holy dread."
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Later, when it was noted that her sympathetic manner made her a favorite with sick people, she was appointed assistant infirmarian.
Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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As infirmarian he was given none other than the theology professor who had so harshly berated him.
Archive 2006-06-11 Terry Nelson 2006
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As infirmarian he was given none other than the theology professor who had so harshly berated him.
Don Marco Terry Nelson 2006
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At fifteen, he became a laybrother at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent his whole life there — as a barber, farm-laborer, almoner, and infirmarian among other things.
St. Martin de Porres, religious Argent 2006
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As infirmarian he was given none other than the theology professor who had so harshly berated him.
Dysfunction at the junction... Terry Nelson 2006
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Sister Bourgeois was alternately priest and infirmarian, eight persons having died in her arms.
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After some time spent as infirmarian she was elected prioress for life (1473), and became by her splendid example the model of a true Carmelite nun, and, in a sense, the foundress of this branch of the order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Next morning at daybreak, the infirmarian found him lying in peaceful prayer, so peaceful that he did not at once perceive that the saint was actually dying.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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At Rome he fulfilled the humble office of infirmarian in the convent of Ara Coeli; and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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