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Definition of Hospitium
1. n. An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
Definition of Hospitium
1. Noun. (obsolete) An inn; a lodging; a hospice. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete legal) An inn of court. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hospitium
1. a place of shelter [n -TIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospitium
Literary usage of Hospitium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome by Coleman Phillipson (1911)
"And, moreover, the institutions of hospitium and clientela, in addition to ...
Thus there was the bond of hospitium between Scipio Africanus and Public- ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"Inn Keeper's Liability for Goods Infra hospitium.—If the goods are received into
the care and keeping of the inn keeper, within the meaning of the terms of ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This was a simple hospitium founded in 715 by King Ina for his countrymen and
known by the name of Hospitale S. ..."
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