hospitalers
plural of hospitaler
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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
6 June 2024
(noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
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