Bible Dictionaries
Hospitaler
Webster's Dictionary
(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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hospitaler'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/hospitaler.html. 1828.