Word Meanings - HOTEL-DIEU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hospital.

HOSPITAL
hospitale , from L. hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, fr. hospes guest. See Host a landlord, and cf. Hostel, Hotel, 1. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. Spenser. 2. A building in which the
HOSPITALITY
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
HOSPITALER
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
HOSPITALISM
A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
HOSPITALIZE
To render unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
INHOSPITALITY
The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.
LOCK HOSPITAL
. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.