hospitate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building or set of buildings for housing non-paying guests or the sick, especially those connected to a monastery.
noun
A non-paying guest.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The truthfulness of the above description appealed before this to a Portuguese gentleman alluded to by Ramusio as well acquainted with the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago , who had no hesitation in identifying as Sumatra the happy island that had hospitated Iambulus ."
- "Our duty is that of assisting in every licit way the Nation which has hospitated and does hospitate yet many of our origin; the country where we have passed the best years of our life;"
- "Two years later it was found that a Shenfield butcher, apparently unlicensed, 'doth daily hospitate and succour vagabonds and idle persons and suffer them to play at cards in his house'."
- "Our task as social workers was to push the institutional boundaries back a little so these good-hearted folks had room to hospitate."
- "That always chooses an empty shell, this hospitates with the living Animal in the same ſhell"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hospitātus, perfect passive participle of hospitō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Usage
Inflected Forms
hospitates (present, singular)
hospitating (participle, present)
hospitated (participle, past)
hospitated (past)
hospitates (plural)
more hospitate (comparative)
most hospitate (superlative)