hospitality, hospital i tie

[French hospital ité, from Lat. hospital is.] The act or practice of receiving and entertaining strangers hospitably; generous and liberal treatment of visitors, strangers, or guests. "The expense of hospitality she [Elizabeth] somewhat encouraged by the frequent visits she paid her nobility." -Hume: Hist. of Eng . (App. 3.) 2216 hos-pit-al-ler, hos-pit-al-er, *hos-pit-eler, *hos-pyt-el-er, s . [Eng. hospital; -er.] One residing in a hospital or place for the reception of the poor or strangers; spec if., one of an order or community whose office was to relieve the poor, the strangers, and the sick; the best known of these communities or orders is that of the Knights of St. John, or the Knights of Malta, who built a hospital at Jerusalem in A. D. 1042, and afterward removed to Malta. "I [King Richard] therefore biquethe my pryde to the hyghe mynded Templars and hospytelers, for they are as proude as helle." Bale : English Votaries, p. ii. *hos-pit-āte, v. i . [Lat. hospitatum , sup. of hospito = Hospitaller. to receive as a guest.] To receive hospitality; to be a guest of or lodge under the roof of another. "This hospitates with the living animal in the same shell."-Grew: Museum.