Fermory
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Firmary. [L. Lat. firmarium.] A place in monasteries, where they received the poor, (hospitio excipiebant,) and gave them provisions, (ferm, firma.) Spelman. Hence the modern infirmary, used in the sense of a hospital.
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