hospitaler Meaning, Definition & Usage

Hos"pi*tal*er noun
Etymology
F. hospitalier. See Hospital, and cf. Hostler.
Definitions
  1. One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
  2. One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.

Webster 1913