Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
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- noun historical An
almshouse forpoor people whopray daily for theirbenefactors .
Etymologies
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Old English bede prayer + English house.
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