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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hospitalitie, n. Also: hospitalité, -yté, -ietie. [ME. hospitalite (1382), OF. hospitalité (12th–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), L. hospitālitās.]

1. Hospitality; entertainment; maintenance, support. a1400 Leg. S. vi. 424.
The aucht [degree] wel ma be For to luf hospitalyte 1495 Reg. Cupar A. I. 248.
With biggyn of stane houses, sufficiand chawmeris, and other houses for hospitalite 1544 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 20.
[Payment of] sex caponis, with hospitalite to serwandis a1578 Pitsc. I. 45/17.
Breaking all kynd of law and hospitalietie 1600-1610 Melvill 113.
[One portion] to be assigned to the pastor for his interteinment and hospitalitie

2. The charitable housing and maintenance of the poor or aged in hospitals; a public foundation for this purpose; a hospital, alms-house. 1561 Reg. Privy C. I. 202.
All annuellis, males [etc.] … pertenyng to chapellanries, prebendariis [etc.], … for employing of the same be hir hienes to hospitaliteis, scolis and utheris godlie usis 1565 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 60.
For sustentation of the poore that all lands foundit to hospitalitie of old be restored againe to the same use 1579 Acts III. 169/2.
For the sustentatioun of the ministrie and hospitalitie within the samyn [burgh of Edinburgh] 1608 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 236.
Our souerane lord … hes erectit within thair citie ane hospitalitie for the … sustentatioune off the edgit and puir 1633 Rep. Maxwell-Stuart Mun. 30.
[A petition by] the poore aucht beidmen of the hospitalitie of Kingis Caice