pauper

Converse of object

• accommodate: The building is large and convenient, capable of accommodating 130 paupers, but the average number of inmates only reaches 20.
• die: He died a pauper at the age of 81, 8th August 1897, at the Parochial Hospital, Dundee.
• remove: He could simply remove the pauper with any dependent family he might have back to their place of settlement.
• maintain: The average cost of maintaining an ordinary pauper was 5s.
• age: On December 4th 1859, the aged paupers were transported " by omnibus " from the old premises to the new workhouse.

Adjective modifier

• in-door: The weekly average cost per head, for in-door paupers, including clothing, was 2s.
• able-bodied: The 1834 Act brought a dramatic fall in able-bodied paupers.
• sick: Attached to it is an Infirmary for about 40 sick paupers, erected in 1823, at the cost of £ 1000.
• indoor: In 1829, 314 indoor paupers were employed in spinning, weaving and picking oakum.
• male: Medicines being in the charge of a male pauper who could not read writing.
• female: There is in the workhouse no male but 10 female paupers who are classed as of unsound mind.

Modifies a noun

• lunatic: The House of Industry was extended in 1819 by the addition of a block for pauper lunatics on the west side of the building.
• inmate: She is assisted by pauper inmates, who act under her direction.
• burial: A kirk session or ' parish ' usually organized pauper burials.
• funeral: Reynolds asked what readers thought of that, when a poor working man's widow reflects upon the pauper funeral of her husband.
• grave: His medals have never been traced and are believed buried with him in a paupers grave in Belfast.
• nurse: There is a male pauper nurse to attend to the sick.

Noun used with modifier

adult: This workhouse is set apart for male adult paupers.

Possessives

grave: He was buried in a pauper's grave in Walton.

Preposition: in

workhouse: In 1797, there were 10 paupers in the workhouse.