PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 98
COMPLETE ROUTE ↗14th–15th c. semantic transition
English lodging, charity, and care institutions
hospital DOSSIER ↗English hospital is reported in the fourteenth century for lodging or charitable residence; fifteenth-century use develops toward an institution caring for sick or injured people.
- COORDINATES STORED
- NO
- HONEST TO PLOT
- NO
- PLACEMENT MODE
- broad
- TIME PRECISION
- range
- NUMERIC TIME BOUND
- YES
- CLAIM CITATIONS
- 2
THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.
The interval conservatively combines the fourteenth-century English first-use horizon and the cited fifteenth-century medical development; it is not an exact institutional chronology.
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- supports
Hospital — Word History
Reports the Middle English lodging and charitable-institution senses and a fourteenth-century first-known-use horizon.
Word History: Etymology and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗ - supports
Had a Long Day of Travel? Check Into a Hospital
Separates the fourteenth-century traveler-lodging stage, fifteenth-century charitable housing, and later fifteenth-century medical institution.
Hospital family history, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century developmentsAUDIT SOURCE ↗