Xenodochial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌzɛnəˈdoʊkiəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Xenodochial is an adjective meaning (rare) (obsolete) Friendly to strangers.
Meaning
(rare) (obsolete) Friendly to strangers.
Example Sentences
They both departed from the xenodochial type, in limiting admission to the sick only, and from the city hospital tradition by depending for support entirely on privately donated funds.
But to prefer Oxford-street to Dove Cottage is too dramatic a shift for De Quincey to make without mediation; Ann's body — purified by De Quincey's narrative — glosses the brute reality of this preference, this instance of xenodochial pleasure.
At least, those intemperate Reflections may serve as Precautionary Documents for Dignitaries of all sorts to humble as well as to steer themselves by, especially in their unfrequented and almost wholly neglected Duty of Christian Hospitality and Oecumenial as well as Oeconomical Reception of Xenodochial Providence-Conformists; who must nevertheless ‘Take “Heart, nor of the Laws of Fate complain, tho’ “now ’tis cloudy, ’twill clear up again.
Antonyms for xenodochial
Common opposites include xenophobic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include xenophilic, xenophilous, xenophile, xenophobe, xenophobous, xenophobic.
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