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hospitalary

hospitalary adjective: of or relating to a hostel or hospitallers.

Adjective (1)

hospitalary (comparative more hospitalary, superlative most hospitalary)

  1. (rare) Of or relating to a hostel or hospitallers.
    • [V]nto the ſayd ambaſſadouurs he ioyned in commiſſion on his behalfe, thꝛee of his owne counſellers, namely the honourable and religious perſonages Conradus de Walrode great commander, Seiffridus Walpode de Baſſenheim chiefe hoſpitalary and commander in Elburg, Wolricus Hachenberger treaſurer...[1599, Richard Hakluyt, “An agreement made by the Ambassadors of England and Prussia, confirmed by king Richard the second”, in The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the...
    • A medical staff should be organized, and proper hospitalary arrangements made for the sick.1855, The Practicability and Importance of a Ship Canal to Connect the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans. […], New York, N.Y.: George F. Nesbitt & Co., […], page 62

Adjective (2)

hospitalary (comparative more hospitalary, superlative most hospitalary)

  1. (rare, non-native speakers' English) Of or relating to a hospital.
    • Aisa, P.; Fano, S. & Guija, A. G. (Diputación Provincial de Vizcaya, Servicios Psiquiátricos de la Excelentisima, Spain) [Evolution of the psychiatric extra[-]hospitalary service in Biscay.]1979 July, Psychological Abstracts, volume 62, number 1, page 170
    • Effectivenness^([sic]) of a hospitalary infection control program: evidence of improvement in quality aspects of medical practice.1986, Salud Pública de México, page 598
  2. (rare, non-native speakers' English) Hospitable.
    • Immigration may then flow in and with thorough confidence in the future, to these hospitalary shores.1883, Francis Latzina, “Immigration”, in The Argentine Republic as a Field for European Emigration: A Statistical and Geographical Review of the Country and Its Resources with All Its Various...
    • […] because though all we love the country where we have born, we love America too, because in this hospitalary country we have a good reception, and its^([sic]) is good and lovely for everyone; […]1919 June 11, “Foreigners Love Freedom of U. S.; Pupil of Americanization Class Pays Tribute to Adopted Country; Have Many Opportunities; Commencement Exercises to Be Held in High School Auditorium...

Examples of hospitalary in a sentence

  • He studied, longitudinally, a group of IDAs admitted in a hospitalary detoxification unit to obtain a first selection of patients tributary of anti-HIV treatment.1989, V International Conference on AIDS, →ISBN, page 793:
  • His main interests area are centered in the treatment of the medical images, inter-hospitalary communication and the application of new technologies into the medical environment.2010, “About the Contributors”, in Irene Maria Portela, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, editors, Information Communication Technology Law...
  • The aim of the study is do correlation between the insulin total dose and the hospitalary stay.2013, A. González-Cantú, José Luis Charles-González, “Insulin Dose and Hospitalary Stay in Patient with Acute Pancreatitis by...
  • Objective: To determine if there are differences in hospitalary cardiac arrest (CA) attention and outcome, depending whether it occurred: inside or outside ICU.2013 October 18, Luis Herrera Para, Roberto Jimenez Sanchez, Alejandro Ortin Freire, Carmen Lopez Pena, Salvador Moreno Aliaga, Angel...

Forms of hospitalary

comparativemore hospitalary
superlativemost hospitalary

Origin of hospitalary

From Latin hospitālārius.

From Spanish hospitalario (“(relational) hospital; hospitable”). By surface analysis, hospital + -ary.

Questions about hospitalary

What does hospitalary mean?
Hospitalary means of or relating to a hostel or hospitallers.
How do you use hospitalary in a sentence?
He studied, longitudinally, a group of IDAs admitted in a hospitalary detoxification unit to obtain a first selection of patients tributary of anti-HIV treatment.
What part of speech is hospitalary?
Hospitalary is an adjective.

Words near hospitalary in the dictionary

  1. hospital soap
  2. hospital sock
  3. hospital socks
  4. Hospital Sunday
  5. Hospital Sundays
  6. hospitalary
  7. hospitale
  8. hospitaler
  9. hospitalers
  10. hospitales
  11. hospitalisable

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