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Webster 1913 Edition


Hospitaler

Hos′pi-tal-er

,
Noun.
[Written also
hospitaller
.]
[F.
hospitalier
. See
Hospital
, and cf.
Hostler
.]
1.
One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
2.
One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims,
A. D.
1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.