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- noun Plural of
hospitium .
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Dayre, átque ex tunc exitur de terra Syriæ, et intratur à superiori parte in desertum longum arenosum, et sterile, propè ad septem dietas, quod lingua eorum vocatur Abilech; tamen per illud inueniantur plura hospitia, vbi haberi possunt ad victum nccessaria.
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Imperatorem non oportet latere, confestim mittuntur per reges aut barones nuncij in dromedarijs aut equis, qui celerrimè festinant ad certa hospitia, ad hoc ipsum, velut ábsque numero per imperium instituta: Isque nuncius hospitio appropinquans, et cornu resonans, dum auditor paratur minicius alter, qui de manu suscipiens literas, per recentem dromedarium festinat ad aliud hospitium, et sic in breui tempore perferuntur rumores ad curia aures.
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Habet haec ciuitas consuetudinem, quod quando vnus vult facere conuiuium amicis suis, ad hoc sunt hospitia deputata, et vbi ille circuit per hospites, dicens sibi tales amicos meos habebis, quos festabis nomine meo, et tantum in festo volo expendere, et per illum modum meliùs conuiuant amici in pluribus hospitijs quam facerent in vno.
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Item quod pr鎑icti mercatores in ciuitatibus, burgis, & villis pr鎑ictis pro voluntate sua hospitari valeant, & morari cum bonis suis ad gratiam ipsorum, quorum sunt hospitia siue domus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Imperatorem non oportet latere, confestim mittuntur per reges aut barones nuncij in dromedarijs aut equis, qui celerrim� festinant ad certa hospitia, ad hoc ipsum, velut 醔sque numero per imperium instituta: Isque nuncius hospitio appropinquans, et cornu resonans, dum auditor paratur minicius alter, qui de manu suscipiens literas, per recentem dromedarium festinat ad aliud hospitium, et sic in breui tempore perferuntur rumores ad curia aures.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Dayre, 醫que ex tunc exitur de terra Syri�, et intratur � superiori parte in desertum longum arenosum, et sterile, prop� ad septem dietas, quod lingua eorum vocatur Abilech; tamen per illud inueniantur plura hospitia, vbi haberi possunt ad victum nccessaria.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In our modern nomenclature the name "inn" may seem a strange one for an institution of learning; but the term is a literal rendering of the ancient title _hospitia_ applied to them in the Latin records, as distinguished from public lodging-houses (_diversoria_).
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From the time of the crusades the hospitia of the Holy Land, those of the Hospitallers of St. John and the Teutonic Order (q. v.), were of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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This was certainly not the first establishment of the kind at Jerusalem. even before the crusades, hostelries were indispensable to shelter the pilgrims who flocked to the Holy Places, and in the beginning the hospitia or xenodochia were nothing more.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The hereditary tenure of benefices by lay protectors she did not reform, but she restored the ruined cells of Iona, and established _hospitia_ for pilgrims.
A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878
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