hospitaller noun. ['hɒspɪt(ǝ)lǝ] Also *hospitaler. ME.
[Old French hospitalier from medieval Latin hospitalarius (also -aris), from hospitale: see HOSPITAL noun, -ER².]
1. (Hospitaller.) More fully Knight Hospitaller. A member of a military religious order founded as the Knights of the Hospital of St John at Jerusalem in the 11th cent. Usu. in pl., this order. ME.

2. gen. A member of a charitable religious order. LME.

3. In a religious house or hospice, the person with responsibility for receiving and attending to visitors, pilgrims, and strangers. LME.

4. In some London hospitals: formerly, the chief resident official, whose responsibilities included religious superintendence; now, the hospital chaplain. M16.

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