Definition of "hospitaller" [hospitaller]

• A person who attends visitors in a religious institution (noun)
• A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals (noun)

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• "He sought out the hospitaller, and made his farewells, and went to saddle up in the stable yard."
• "Not until the porter had shown forth all the curiosities and beauties of his church to the visitor did he hand Cadfael over to the hospitaller, to be furnished with a bed, and welcomed into the community at supper in the frater."
• "The hospitaller, gravely courteous, would not press him beyond what he cared to confide, but let him have his way, offered a confessor should he be in need, and left him to lead his horse to the stables and tend him before taking his own rest."