hospitating

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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