“quest、house”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

quest-house

释义

† quest-house Obs.
The house at which the inquests in a ward or parish were commonly held.
1571Acc. St. Giles, Cripplegate in MS. Addit. 12222 [cited by Halliwell, s.v.].1607Dekker & Webster Northw. Hoe i. D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 12 Are all the Quest-houses broken vp?1668Pepys Diary 24 Jan., At the Quest House, where the company meets to the burial of my cozen Joyce.1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3239/4 At the Quest-house on Little-Tower-Hill is a Grammar-School.1828Nares Let. to A. Dyce, A Quest-house was the chief Watch-house in a parish... Some parishes in London still have them, e.g. St. Giles's Cripplegate.
fig.1635Quarles Embl. 102 It is a world, whose Work..Is vanity, and vexation;..A Quest-house of complaint.
attrib.1628Spelman De Sepult. (1641) 22 A Parish Audit, or a Quest-House dinner.

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