2. Verb. (third-person singular of host) ¹
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Definition of Hosts
1. host [v] - See also: host
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hosts
Literary usage of Hosts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As early as the fourteenth century the making of hosts had become a business.
... Before the French Revolution, in many dioceses, each cure made the hosts ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The distribution of the expression "of hosts" may be set forth something like this:
... Whether the hosts of which Yahweh was God were those of heaven—the ..."
3. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"... fresh meadows; cool brooks—an existence of soft and eternal peace. Over the
river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. ..."
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