Hospitalism
(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.
Hospitality
(Hos`pi*tal"i*ty) n.; pl. Hospitalities [L. hospitalitas: cf. F. hospitalité.] 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. Hospitalize
(Hos"pi*tal*ize) v. t. (Med.) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued
use as a hospital.
Hospitate
(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.
Hospitate
(Hos"pi*tate), v. t. To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest. [Obs.] Cockeram.
Hospitium
(||Hos*pi"ti*um) n. [L. See Hospice.]
1. An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [Obs.]
2. (Law) An inn of court.
Hospodar
(||Hos"po*dar`) n. [A Slav. word; cf. Russ. gospodare lord, master.] A title borne by the
princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.
Host
(Host) n. [LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.) The consecrated wafer,
believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men.
Host
(Host), n. [OE. host, ost, OF. host, ost, fr. L. hostis enemy, LL., army. See Guest, and cf.
Host a landlord.]
1. An army; a number of men gathered for war.
A host so great as covered all the field.
Dryden. 2. Any great number or multitude; a throng.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God.
Luke ii. 13.
All at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.
Wordsworth. Host
(Host), n. [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. hôte, from L. hospes a stranger who is treated as
a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis stranger, enemy (akin to E. guest
a visitor) + potis able; akin to Skr. pati master, lord. See Host an army, Possible, and cf. Hospitable,
Hotel.] One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from
whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson.
Time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
Shak. Host
(Host), v. t. To give entertainment to. [Obs.] Spenser.
Host
(Host), v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] "Where you shall host." Shak.
