Hos"pice (?), n. [F., fr. L. hospitium hospitality, a place where
strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See Host a
landlord.] A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or
entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the
Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
Hos"pi*ta*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. hospitable, LL. hospitare to receive as
a guest. See Host a landlord.] 1. Receiving and entertaining strangers
or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and
guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.
2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and
strangers; as, hospitable rites.
To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Goldsmith.
Hos"pi*ta*ble*ness, n. The quality of being hospitable; hospitality.
Barrow.
Hos"pi*ta*bly, adv. In a hospitable manner.
Hos"pi*tage (?), n. [LL. hospitagium, for L. hospitium. See Hospice.]
Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hos"pi*tal (?), n. [OF. hospital, ospital, F. hÙpital, LL. hospitale
(or perh. E. hospital is directly from the Late Latin), from L.
hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, fr.
hospes guest. See Host a landlord, and cf. Hostel, Hotel, Spital.] 1. A
place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and
treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and
cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or
disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at
their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a
tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army
cared for.
Hospital ship, a vessel fitted up for a floating hospital. -- Hospital
Sunday, a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to
hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.
Hos"pi*tal, a. [L. hospitalis: cf. OF. hospital.] Hospitable. [Obs.]
Howell.
Hos"pi*tal*er (?), n. [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.
Hos"pi*tal*ism (?), n. (Med.) A vitiated condition of the body, due to
long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the
atmosphere of a hospital.
Hos`pi*tal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Hospitalities (#). [L. hospitalitas: cf.
F. hospitalitÈ.] The act or practice of one who is hospitable;
reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or
with kind and generous liberality.
Given to hospitality.
Rom. xii. 13.
And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of
hospitality.
Shak.
Hos"pi*tal*ize (?), v. t. (Med.) To render (a building) unfit for
habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
Hos"pi*tate (?), v. i. [L. hospitatus, p. p. of hospitari to be a
guest, fr. hospes guest.] To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.]
Grew.
Hos"pi*tate, v. t. To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
[Obs.] Cockeram.
||Hos*pi"ti*um (?), n. [L. See Hospice.] 1. An inn; a lodging; a
||hospice. [Obs.]