Sekirov Dictionary

hospitate

noun 2
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 5

noun2

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A building or set of buildings for housing non-paying guests or the sick, especially those connected to a monastery.
- The Hospitate buildings of a monastery were erected in different parts of the convent ground, according to the profession or quality of the guests. — 1868
A non-paying guest.

verb2

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(no longer used) To receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.
- In these days people do not hospitate, but, when forced to invite 5 acquaintances into their houses they entertain them, as many as possible, at crowded receptions and teas. — 1899
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(no longer used) To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
- That always chooses an empty shell, this hospitates with the living Animal in the same shell — 1681

adjective1

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Hospitable.
- Educational institutions worthy of the name must be hospitate to the nonconformist and must protect the unpopular. — 1969

forms

hospitated · hospitating · hospitates · more hospitate · most hospitate

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