In old records. A place In monasteries, where they received the poor, (hospicio excipiebant,) and gave them provisions, (ferm, firma.) Spelman. Hence the modern infirmary; used in the sense of a hospital.
In old records. A place In monasteries, where they received the poor, (hospicio excipiebant,) and gave them provisions, (ferm, firma.) Spelman. Hence the modern infirmary; used in the sense of a hospital.