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1. (n.) Hospitaler
a member of a religious and military order originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME hospitalier < MF < ML hospitālārius; see hospital , -ier2)
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1. (noun) Hospitaler
one residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers
2. (noun) Hospitaler
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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