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   Hospitaler , n. [Written also hospitaller.] [F. hospitalier. See Hospital, and cf. Hostler.]
   One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
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   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.
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