Meaning

(rare) Of or relating to a hostel or hospitallers..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Of or relating to a hostel or hospitallers.
2. (rare, non-native speakers' English) Of or relating to a hospital.
3. (rare, non-native speakers' English) Hospitable.

Example Sentences

[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.

A medical staff should be organized, and proper hospitalary arrangements made for the sick.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Aisa, P.; Fano, S. & Guija, A. G. (Diputación Provincial de Vizcaya, Servicios Psiquiátricos de la Excelentisima, Spain) [Evolution of the psychiatric extra[-]hospitalary service in Biscay.]

Effectivenness^([sic]) of a hospitalary infection control program: evidence of improvement in quality aspects of medical practice.

Word Forms

• more hospitalary
• most hospitalary

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Use hospitalary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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