Meanings
hospitalary1
comparative more hospitalary · superlative most hospitalary
- rareOf or relating to a hostel or hospitallers.
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 625 more examples
[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, being all of the oꝛder afoꝛeſaid.
[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 English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC, page 151In taking this course in the present instance, I soon found that μαιαι was the designation of the women who acted as attendants on the sick. The primary sense of the word seems to have been the more limited one of obstetrix or midwife; but the signification amplifies itself freely to that of curatrix or sick-nurse: and it was thus perfectly applicable to whatsoever females were in attendance in such hospitalary apartments and quarters as a Roman army was able to provide for its many wounded, ailing, and infirm, and who would be the best assistants to the medical officers, and not seldom their able substitutes.
1876, Ralph Carr Ellison, “The Rudge Cup”, in Archæologia Æliana: or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume VII, […] Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Wiiliam Dodd, […], page 263From the first all the foster-parents of the new scheme were active in their several directions. M. Quentin, as head of the Paris branch of that curious compound of public and private charity, the French poor relief, used every available occasion to give facilities for launching the venture. Among other opportunities he was enabled to purchase, for forty thousand francs, a beautifully located farm in the department of the Seine -et-Marne, for the installation of some hospitalary or hygienic establishment.
1892, Edmund R. Spearman, “A School for Street Arabs”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume XII, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Limited, page 477, column 1Thus the array of missionary, educational, preaching, hospitalary, and evangelical orders speaks both to the different vocational commitments that coexist within the Catholic church and to its diversified professional market.
1982, Hernan Vera, The Professionalization and Professionalism of Catholic Priests, Gainesville, Fla.: University Presses of Florida, →ISBN, page 71the church and the house of the Friars Minor . . . and had made ten chalices of gilded silver [var.: and vestments] and other church ornaments for the ten altars which are there, . . . and had books made for saying the divine service and for the study of the brothers, and provided the said house with beds and other hospitalary provisions which it needed. (ed. Delaborde, 46–7)
1993, Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, volumes I (A–K), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 271
hospitalary2
comparative more hospitalary · superlative most hospitalary
- rarenon-native speakers' EnglishOf or relating to a hospital.
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 Hypertriglyceridemia”, in International Journal of Internal Medicine5 more examples
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 170Effectivenness^([sic]) of a hospitalary infection control program: evidence of improvement in quality aspects of medical practice.
1986, Salud Pública de México, page 598He 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 793GARCIA MIC, CANO POZO GC: A study of the control and knowledge of hypertensive patients attended in a hospitalary emergency department (questionnaire, research, tables/charts) ENFERMERIA CLIN 1994 Jul-Aug; 4(4): 166-72 (15 bib) [Spanish]
1995, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, volume 40, part C, CINAHL Information Systems, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 1637His 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, Protection and Access Rights: Global Approaches and Issues, Hershey, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 540 - rarenon-native speakers' EnglishHospitable.
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 Features, Buenos Aires: […] “The Union”, of Stiller & Laass, […], page 9, column 23 more examples
[…] 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 Friday Night”, in Wilmington Morning News, volume 76, number 139, Wilmington, Del., page sevenTraveling only two hours by automovile^([sic]) from South Pacific Railway of Mexico, from Navojoa Station, toward South, you will reach this city with its splendid weather and hospitalary people.
1941 January 26, W. J. Hooten, “Unless You Know, It’s Easy To Err”, in The El Paso Times, 61st year, number 26, El Paso, Tex., page 6An email he sent a few weeks later, never ceased to make me smile; / Hi, darling !! when are you in this moment ? Arrived to Salta? Mister Jorge Vidal Casas wose friendly , hospitalary whit you ?
2007, Marianne du Toit, Crying with Cockroaches: Argentina to New York with Two Horses, Liendi Publishing, →ISBN, page 76
Origin
hospitalary · adjective
- Latinhospitālārius
- Englishhospitalary
From Latin hospitālārius.
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Full word history & related roots →hospitalary · adjective
- Spanishhospitalario“(relational) hospital; hospitable”
- Englishhospitalary
From Spanish hospitalario (“(relational) hospital; hospitable”). By surface analysis, hospital + -ary.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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