HOSPITALER

Noun

hospitaler (plural hospitalers)

Alternative form of hospitaller

Anagrams

• astrophile, sprite halo, trophesial

Source: Wiktionary


Hos"pi*tal*er, n. [Written also hospitaller.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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