Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inn or a place for the reception of strangers; a hospice.
- noun In English law, an inn of court.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
- noun (Law) An inn of court.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
inn ; alodging ; ahospice . - noun obsolete, law An inn of court.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At last the Emperor Theodosius punished it with fire as a profanation, because sacro-sanctum esse debetur hospitium virilis animæ.
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In crastino fuerunt kalendæ et pascha Saracenoram et mutaui hospitium: ita quod fui hospitatus prope aliam Idolatriam.
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Similique modo nuncij pedites permutantur de hospitio in hospitium, vt citiùs percipiatur negocium huius nuncij: appellantur sua lingua
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Tunc exiuimus, et post pauca, venit Ductor noster ad nos, et ducens nos ad hospitium, dixit mihi,
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Imperatorem non oportet latere, confestim mittuntur per reges aut barones nuncij in dromedarijs aut equis, qui celerrimè festinant ad certa hospitia, ad hoc ipsum, velut ábsque numero per imperium instituta: Isque nuncius hospitio appropinquans, et cornu resonans, dum auditor paratur minicius alter, qui de manu suscipiens literas, per recentem dromedarium festinat ad aliud hospitium, et sic in breui tempore perferuntur rumores ad curia aures.
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Sic ergo reuersi sumus cum duobus residuis bigis ad hospitium nostrum.
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Et ipsi receperunt nos gratanter, et dederunt nobis hospitium in ecclesia Episcopali.
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Quibus auditis, fecit recipi panem et vinum et fructus: vestimenta et libros fecit nos reportare ad hospitium.
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Nota, per Dromedarios, et cursores, et veloces, qui de hospitio ad hospitium permutantur, scit de remotis noua.
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Similique modo nuncij pedites permutantur de hospitio in hospitium, vt citi鵶 percipiatur negocium huius nuncij: appellantur sua lingua
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