HOSPITALER

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

2.
n.

One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.

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