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‖ hospitium|hɒˈspɪʃɪəm|
[L.: see hospice.]
1. = hospice 1.
1650Trapp Comm. Gen. i. 9–10 God..will not faile to provide us an hospitium, a place to reside in, when cast out of all. 1700tr. Angelo & Carli's Congo in Pinkerton Voy. (1814) XVI. 156 (Stanf.) Attended by this croud, we proceeded to our hospitium or house for our reception. 1830Scott Monast. xvi, Inform us why you will not approach our more pleasant and better furnished hospitium. 1878Maclear Celts xi. 181 The Church at Iona, as well as the hospitium, the refectory, etc. were thus made of wattles.
2. A place of residence for students in a university; a hall or hostel.
1895Rashdall Univ. Europe I. v. §5. 481 The original Hospicium or Hall (as it was usually called at Oxford) was a democratic, self-governing Society. Ibid. 482 The College was, in its origin, nothing but an endowed Hospicium or Hall. Ibid. II. ii. xii. §9. 558 At Cambridge..the more usual name was Hospicium or Hostel—not the only instance in which a Parisian usage has been preserved more faithfully at Cambridge than at Oxford. |