hospitalary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hospitalary
form: most hospitalary
Etymology: From Latin hospitālārius.
Senses: examples: text: [V]nto the ſayd ambaſſadouurs he ioyned in commiſſion on his behalfe, thꝛee of his owne counſellers, namely the honourable and religious perſonages Conradus de Walrode great commander, Seiffridus Walpode de Baſſenheim chiefe hoſpitalary and commander in Elburg, Wolricus Hachenberger treaſurer, being all of the oꝛder afoꝛeſaid.
ref: [1599, Richard Hakluyt, “An agreement made by the Ambassadors of England and Prussia, confirmed by king Richard the second”, in The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC, page 151:
text: A medical staff should be organized, and proper hospitalary arrangements made for the sick.
ref: 1855, The Practicability and Importance of a Ship Canal to Connect the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans. […], New York, N.Y.: George F. Nesbitt & Co., […], page 62:
text: In taking this course in the present instance, I soon found that μαιαι was the designation of the women who acted as attendants on the sick. The primary sense of the word seems to have been the more limited one of obstetrix or midwife; but the signification amplifies itself freely to that of curatrix or sick-nurse: and it was thus perfectly applicable to whatsoever females were in attendance in such hospitalary apartments and quarters as a Roman army was able to provide for its many wounded, ailing, and infirm, and who would be the best assistants to the medical officers, and not seldom their able substitutes.
ref: 1876, Ralph Carr Ellison, “The Rudge Cup”, in Archæologia Æliana: or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume VII, […] Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Wiiliam Dodd, […], page 263:
text: From the first all the foster-parents of the new scheme were active in their several directions. M. Quentin, as head of the Paris branch of that curious compound of public and private charity, the French poor relief, used every available occasion to give facilities for launching the venture. Among other opportunities he was enabled to purchase, for forty thousand francs, a beautifully located farm in the department of the Seine -et-Marne, for the installation of some hospitalary or hygienic establishment.
ref: 1892, Edmund R. Spearman, “A School for Street Arabs”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume XII, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Limited, page 477, column 1:
text: Thus the array of missionary, educational, preaching, hospitalary, and evangelical orders speaks both to the different vocational commitments that coexist within the Catholic church and to its diversified professional market.
ref: 1982, Hernan Vera, The Professionalization and Professionalism of Catholic Priests, Gainesville, Fla.: University Presses of Florida, →ISBN, page 71:
text: the church and the house of the Friars Minor . . . and had made ten chalices of gilded silver [var.: and vestments] and other church ornaments for the ten altars which are there, . . . and had books made for saying the divine service and for the study of the brothers, and provided the said house with beds and other hospitalary provisions which it needed. (ed. Delaborde, 46–7)
ref: 1993, Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, volumes I (A–K), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: Of or relating to a hostel or hospitallers.