Definition of Spitals

1. spital [n] - See also: spital

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spitals

spit and polish
spit curl
spit curls
spit it out
spit of land
spit out
spit take
spit the dummy
spit up
spit wad
spit wads
spital
spitalhouse
spitalhouses
spitals (current term)
spitball
spitballed
spitballing
spitbox
spitboxes
spitbug
spitbugs
spitchcock
spitchcocked
spitchcocking
spitchcocks
spitcher
spite

Literary usage of Spitals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"Another of the suburban leper-spitals was founded at Highgate by a citizen in 1468*, and it is not until the reign of Henry VIII. that we hear of the ..."

2. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"Another of the suburban leper-spitals was founded at Highgate by a citizen in 1468*, and it is not until the reign of Henry VIII. that we hear of the ..."

3. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"Another of the suburban leper-spitals was founded at Highgate by a citizen in 1468*, and it is not until the reign of Henry VIII. that we hear of the ..."

4. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1849)
"Inn-keeping was not then a profession, and "spitals" served, at a cheap rate, ... These " spitals " are almost innumerable in this district of Scotland. ..."

5. Lochnagar by Alex Inkson McConnochie (1891)
"spitals", it may be mentioned, were planted in almost all the mountain ... It is also evident that this and other spitals served as side-chapels for the ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... line of the surely no justification for so truncated a rendering of s " spitals." Is there any ts use elsewhere ? I regret that so adopts it. ..."

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