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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Hŏs'pi-tal-er, n.

noun

n. [From hospital.]

  1. One residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers.
  2. One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem, in A. D. 1042, for pilgrims. They were called Knights of St. John, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.