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  • HOSPITALLERS
    The knights of a religious order, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem, wherein pilgrims were received. All their lands and goods in England were given to the sovereign by 32 Hen. VIIL c. 24.
  • HOSPITATOR
    A host or entertainer. Hospitator communis. An innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32. Hospitator magnus. The marshal of a camp.
  • HOSPITIA
    Inns. Hospitia communis common inns. Bfig. Orig. 105. Hospitia cu-riw, inns of court Hospitia cancellarice, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 429 ; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 120.
  • HOSPITICIDE
    One that kills his guest or host.
  • HOSPITIUM
    An inn; a household. See Cromwell v. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 17.
  • HOSPODAR
    A Turkish governor in Moldavia or Wallachia.
  • HOST
    L. Fr. An army. Britt C. 22. A military expedition; war. Kelhain.
  • HOSTAGE
    A person who is given into the possession of the enemy, in a public war, his freedom (or life) to stand as security for the performance of some contract or promise made by tbe belligerent power giving the hostage with the other.
  • HOSTELAGIUM
    In old records. A right to receive lodging and entertainment anciently reserved by lords in the houses of their tenants. Cowell.
  • HOSTELER
    See HOSTLER.
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