Meaning of hospitate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.
   ambitransitive, obsolete
2. To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
   intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“In these days people do not hospitate, but, when forced to invite 5 acquaintances into their houses they entertain them, as many as possible, at crowded receptions and teas.”

“The truthfulness of the above description appealed before this to a Portuguese gentleman alluded to by Ramusio as well acquainted with the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago , who had no hesitation in identifying as Sumatra the happy island that had hospitated Iambulus .”

“Our duty is that of assisting in every licit way the Nation which has hospitated and does hospitate yet many of our origin; the country where we have passed the best years of our life;”

“Two years later it was found that a Shenfield butcher, apparently unlicensed, 'doth daily hospitate and succour vagabonds and idle persons and suffer them to play at cards in his house'.”

“Our task as social workers was to push the institutional boundaries back a little so these good-hearted folks had room to hospitate.”

“That always chooses an empty shell, this hospitates with the living Animal in the same ſhell”

“She only hereby evinces her ambodexteral address, by first presenting baskets of the finest flowers, and most delicious fruits, too charming, to exquisite to be refused; and then holding forth, half-concealed, only the PICTURE of a snake, which in is living form is wont to hospitate in deceitful ambush beneath these very flowers, these very fruits.”

““I presume, sir, you cannot excogitate any reason why I should not become the vocal organ of this company's social devotions, while we hospitate together.”

“Anxious, however, to advance his scientific knowledge as much as was in his power he at once proceeded to Germany to hospitate in the department of medical and surgical science at the Berlin Academy.”

“Everyone who is interested is first obliged to hospitate with skilful volunteers at school. The selection is then based on the appreciation by other volunteers and especially by the team leaders of the local projects.”

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