WITNESS / 100
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 100
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of Hospital in the medical-care sense; it is not a HOSPITAL headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not prove the earlier lodging senses or Latin ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
hospital
John Harris’s NOSOCOMIUM entry uses Hospital for an institution where poor sick people are attended and, if possible, cured.
“NOSOCOMIUM, is an Hospital for Poor Sick People; where they are attended, and cured, if possible.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [572], left column, entry NOSOCOMIUM; e-rara content image 2867636
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867636
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERhospital ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 152 ↗
NAMED SOURCELexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMHospital
“NOSOCOMIUM, is an Hospital for Poor Sick People; where they are attended, and cured, if possible.”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [572], left column, entry NOSOCOMIUM; e-rara content image 2867636
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of Hospital in the medical-care sense in 1704. It does not establish a HOSPITAL headword, the earliest occurrence, the earlier lodging senses, or the Latin ancestry.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- erara-harris-lexicon-1704