hospitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hospitates
form: hospitating
form: hospitated
form: hospitated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hospitātus, perfect passive participle of hospitō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Senses: examples: text: In these days people do not hospitate, but, when forced to invite 5 acquaintances into their houses they entertain them, as many as possible, at crowded receptions and teas.
ref: 1899, Marion Harland, Bits of Common Sense Series, page 5:
text: The truthfulness of the above description appealed before this to a Portuguese gentleman alluded to by Ramusio as well acquainted with the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago , who had no hesitation in identifying as Sumatra the happy island that had hospitated Iambulus .
ref: 1909, Gerolamo Emilio Gerini, Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia, page 595:
text: Our duty is that of assisting in every licit way the Nation which has hospitated and does hospitate yet many of our origin; the country where we have passed the best years of our life;
ref: 1941, United states Congress, Congressional Record, page A-5679:
text: Two years later it was found that a Shenfield butcher, apparently unlicensed, 'doth daily hospitate and succour vagabonds and idle persons and suffer them to play at cards in his house'.
ref: 1970, Frederick George Emmison, Elizabethan Life - Issue 63, page 220:
text: Our task as social workers was to push the institutional boundaries back a little so these good-hearted folks had room to hospitate.
ref: 2009, James L. Gritter, Hospitious Adoption, page 177:
glosses: To receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.
examples: text: That always chooses an empty shell, this hospitates with the living Animal in the same ſhell
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
text: She only hereby evinces her ambodexteral address, by first presenting baskets of the finest flowers, and most delicious fruits, too charming, to exquisite to be refused; and then holding forth, half-concealed, only the PICTURE of a snake, which in is living form is wont to hospitate in deceitful ambush beneath these very flowers, these very fruits.
ref: 1775, Layman, Strictures, Miscellaneous and Comparative, on the Churches of Rome, England, and Scotland, page 220:
text: “I presume, sir, you cannot excogitate any reason why I should not become the vocal organ of this company's social devotions, while we hospitate together.
ref: 1851, Martha Martell, Second Love, page 284:
text: Anxious, however, to advance his scientific knowledge as much as was in his power he at once proceeded to Germany to hospitate in the department of medical and surgical science at the Berlin Academy.
ref: 1912, Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, page 319:
text: Everyone who is interested is first obliged to hospitate with skilful volunteers at school. The selection is then based on the appreciation by other volunteers and especially by the team leaders of the local projects.
ref: 2011, Michael Groneberg, Christian Funke, Combatting Homophobia, page 55:
glosses: To receive hospitality; to be a guest.