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Hospitale, -al(l, n. Also: hospytale; hospytaill, hospicta(i)le, hospetaill; hospet(t)al(l); hospitile, -ell. [ME. hospitall (15th c.), -ayle, -ale, -al (c 1300), OF. hospital, med. L. hospitale, place for the reception of guests, hospice.]

1. A charitable house for the needy, destitute, infirm, or aged; an alms-house.Maister hospitale, maister of the hospital(is). see Maister n.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxv. 399.
[They] ane hospytale mad … One the bank of that riuere, Quhar-in al that had nede Thai herbryt wele 1424 Acts II. 7/1.
Anent hospitalys that ar fundit of almous dedis throu kingis to be vphaldyne to pur folkis and seik 1446 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 244.
The chapillanis of sanct Peteris hospitale of ald Aberdene 1489 Acta Conc. 129/1.
Pretendand him maister of the hospitale & masondew of Brechin 1501 Ib. MS. XI. 9.
The hospictale callit the mason dew of Elgin 1581 Stirling B. Rec. II. 376.
Movit with pietie upoun the puir in hospitale within the said burgh 1627 Orkney Rentals iii. 47.
Na hospitale in the paroch, nor neuer was(b) c1460 Consail Wys Man 320.
That gold … , To deill it to the pure petaill, Tyll almous hous ore hospetaill 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 380.
Sum men dois spend thairȝouthed haill In court, syne endis in the hospytaill 1641 Edinb. B. Rec. VII. 225 n.
Our said chairtour of our new hospetall called the Maltmans Hospetaill(c) 1552 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 170.
That ane fair hospital suld be maid … and … intertenyit with ane priest, ane surrigiane, ane medicinar and xl beddis at vj d. the day 1589 Ib. V. 6.
The hous of the awld hospitall in the Trinity College, quhilk wes occupeit be the beidmen [etc.] … , to serve for ane hospitall to wemen and orphalones 1640 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 418.
The tenement of land … to be edified and maid ane perfytt hospitall for intertenement of the poor aiget decrippet men to be placit thairinto 1683 Banff Ann. II. 53.
There is in the town an hospitall founded … 1663 or thereabout, for the maintenance of six depauperat tenants [etc.] Ib. 58.(d) 1549 Edinb. Hammermen 179 b.
James Cranstun [etc.] … maid thair daner in the hospettal(e) 1595 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 168.
Anent the hospitell 1641 Stirling Chart. 134.
Spittellis Hospitell

b. An asylum of this kind for lepers; a leper-house. a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 382.
Ȝe let me gang Wnto ȝone hospitall at the tounis end 1500 Acta Conc. II. 426.
The lipper folkis of the hospictaile of Kincais 1596 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 178.
Fyve termes annuell … pertenyng to the puir leprois hospitall beyond the brig 1636 Glasgow Chart. I. ii. 387.
Vna cum etiam illa domo vocata lie lipper hous et Sanct Ninianis Hospitall nuncupata

c. Comb. and attrib. with hous, maister, yaird. 1549 Edinb. Hammermen 181 b.
Giffin to haue away of the stanis out of the hospetall ȝard 1596 Perth Kirk S. 275.]
[That an hospital-house for the entertainment of the poor within our congregation be erected 1613 Dundee B. Laws 57.
12 (merks) from the hospitall maister 1673 Stirling B. Rec. II. 13.
That an handsome sun dyall be sett upe in the hospitall yaird 1684 Elgin Rec. I. 333.
The counsell appoyntit Thomas Wood as hospitall Mr. to advance to William Brodie … sex punds … to help to pay the caire for healling his leg

2. a. A hostel for pilgrims or travellers, a hospice. b. A place of sojourn, a lodging-place. fig. c1515 Asl. MS. I. 253/23.
He biggit ane noble hospitale at sanct Paulis in Rome c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 77.
Hospitall riall, the lord of all Thy closet did include