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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Hospitaler

· Hos·pi·tal·er · IPA
01 n. One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
  1. 1.
    One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
  2. 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.