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hospitates

hospitates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hospitate.

hospitates is the plural of hospitate.

Meaning of hospitate

Verb

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

  1. (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
  2. (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: […]...

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Questions about hospitates

What is hospitates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hospitates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hospitate.

Words near hospitates in the dictionary

  1. hospitallike
  2. hospitalman
  3. hospitals
  4. hospitate
  5. hospitated
  6. hospitates
  7. hospitating
  8. hospitation
  9. hospitations
  10. hospitia
  11. hospiticide

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