Meaning of xenodochial | Babel Free

Definitions

(obsolete) Friendly to strangers.

rare

Equivalents

Examples

“At least, those intemperate Reflections may serve⟳ as Precautionary Documents for Dignitaries of all sorts to humble as well as to steer⟳ themselves by, especially in their unfrequented and almost wholly neglected Duty of Christian Hospitality and Oecumenial as well as Oeconomical Reception of Xenodochial Providence-Conformists; who must nevertheless ‘Take⟳ “Heart, nor of the Laws of Fate complain⟳, tho’ “now ’tis cloudy, ’twill clear up again.”

“They both departed from the xenodochial type⟳, in limiting admission to the sick only, and from the city hospital tradition by depending for support⟳ entirely on privately donated funds.”

“But to prefer⟳ Oxford-street to Dove Cottage is too dramatic a shift for De Quincey to make⟳ without mediation; Ann's body — purified by De Quincey's narrative — glosses the brute reality of this preference, this instance of xenodochial pleasure.”

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