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  Hospitaller

  noun

  a member of the order of the Knights Hospitallers
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  hospitaller

  noun

  a person, esp a member of certain religious orders, dedicated to hospital work, ambulance services, etc

Hospitaller

¹ British  

/ ˈhɒspɪtələ /

noun

1. a member of the order of the Knights Hospitallers

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hospitaller ² British  

/ ˈhɒspɪtələ /

noun

1. a person, esp a member of certain religious orders, dedicated to hospital work, ambulance services, etc

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Etymology

Origin of hospitaller

C14: from Old French hospitalier, from Medieval Latin hospitālārius, from hospitāle hospice; see _hospital

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The fort’s museum describes the nobles of the multinational Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, who along with the Maltese people helped repel the invaders.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2017

And, just below, a large red-and-white flag billowing above Rome’s glitziest shopping area signals the presence of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta.

From Economist ● Aug. 11, 2016

No rulers have been more closely associated with Malta than the Knights, otherwise known by their full name, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2016

The Hospitaller Knights of St. John, founded during the Crusades, settled in Malta in 1530 and stayed until 1798, during which time they left an indelible mark.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2013

Besides, a cynic contemporary with Sir Gilbert Clare may have questioned the spirit in which the Hospitaller had watched the cliffs of Devon fade out in the sunset.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

Of the whole, only two templars, one hospitaller, and one common soldier escaped, to bring the melancholy tidings to the king of France.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

He is a champion of valour for feats of arms; he is an hospitaller for householding.

From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Eliot, Charles William

There he found that the self-sacrificing hospitaller had nothing better to tell of his results.

From The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Tilney, Frederick Colin

The master hospitaller asked them if they were cured and could walk.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

This figure suppressed 9,934 teaching establishments, 1,856 hospital corps, and 822 establishments of a mixed nature, i. e. hospitaller and teaching.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)