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Hospitaller

HOS'PITALLER

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Noun.
[from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims. They were called knights of St. John, and are the same as the knights of Malta.

Definition 2024

hospitaller

hospitaller

English

Noun

hospitaller ‎(plural hospitallers)

  1. A person who attends visitors in a religious institution
  2. A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals

Derived terms

  • Knights Hospitallers
  • Grand Hospitaller

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