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Hospitaller

HOS'PITALLER, n. [from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgr...

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HOS'PITALLER, n. [from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims. They were called knights of St. John, and are the same as the knights of Malta.

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