hospitate

hospitate verb: to receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.

Verb

hospitate (third-person singular simple present hospitates, present participle hospitating, simple past and past participle hospitated)

(ambitransitive, obsolete) To receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.
- 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.1899, Marion Harland, Bits of Common Sense Series, page 5
- 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 .1909, Gerolamo Emilio Gerini, Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia, page 595
(intransitive, obsolete) To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
- That always chooses an empty shell, this hospitates with the living Animal in the same ſhell1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […]...
- She only hereby evinces her ambodexteral address, by first presenting baskets of the finest flowers, and most delicious fruits, too charming, to exquisite to be refused; and then holding forth, half-concealed, only the PICTURE of a snake, which in is living form is wont to hospitate in deceitful...1775, Layman, Strictures, Miscellaneous and Comparative, on the Churches of Rome, England, and Scotland, page 220

hospitate (plural hospitates)

A building or set of buildings for housing non-paying guests or the sick, especially those connected to a monastery.
- The Hospitate buildings of a monastery were erected in different parts of the convent ground, according to the profession or quality of the guests.1868, Archaeologia Cantiana - Volume 7, page 14
- Of these different classes of receipts all, except those from "troncs, quêtes et collectes,” are enjoyed by the hospitates and asylums as well by the bureaux de bienfaisance.1893, Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, page 106
A non-paying guest.
- On motion of Julius Freiberg, Esq., it was ordered that the resolution of this Board passed June 3, 1877, relative to the admission of Moritz Sachs, as an indigent student of this College, be rescinded, he not having passed an examination to become a pupil of the high-school, though to remain a...1892, Annual Report of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, page 473

hospitate (comparative more hospitate, superlative most hospitate)

Hospitable.
- Educational institutions worthy of the name must be hospitate to the nonconformist and must protect the unpopular.1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 237
- The chert Osage glades are not hospitate and few animals live on them1978, Missouri Conservationist - Volumes 39-40, page 18

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;1941, United states Congress, Congressional Record, page A-5679:
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'.1970, Frederick George Emmison, Elizabethan Life - Issue 63, page 220:
Our task as social workers was to push the institutional boundaries back a little so these good-hearted folks had room to hospitate.2009, James L. Gritter, Hospitious Adoption, page 177:
“I presume, sir, you cannot excogitate any reason why I should not become the vocal organ of this company's social devotions, while we hospitate together.1851, Martha Martell, Second Love, page 284:

Verb
third-person singular present	hospitates
present participle	hospitating
past participle	hospitated
past	hospitated
Noun
plural	hospitates
Adjective
comparative	more hospitate
superlative	most hospitate

Borrowed from Latin hospitātus, perfect passive participle of hospitō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).

What does hospitate mean?: Hospitate means to receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.
How do you use hospitate in a sentence?: 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;
What part of speech is hospitate?: Hospitate can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
What is the past tense of hospitate?: The past tense of hospitate is hospitated.

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