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A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard. (more info) strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See

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A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard. (more info) strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See Host a

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• HOSPICE
  A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard. (more info) strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CONVENTICLING
  Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• REFUGE
  1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18. 2.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CONVENT
  1. A coming together; a meeting. A usual ceremony at their convents or meetings. B. Jonson. 2. An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. One of our convent, and his confessor. Shak. 3. A house
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like