hospitage

English

Etymology

From Latin hospitagium, for Latin hospitium. See hospice.

Noun

hospitage (countable and uncountable, plural hospitages)

(obsolete) hospitality
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  That his ungentle hoste n'ote
  him appeach
  Of vile ungentlenesse or hospitages breach

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hospitage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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