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HOSPITALITY, /. [. hoJpitalj.lt , Fr.] The benevolent 
practice of entertaining ftrangers.—The Lacedemonians, 
forbidding- all accefs of grangers into their coafts, are, in 
that refpeft, defervedly blamed, as being enemies to that 
hofpitalily which, .for common humanity’s Pike, all the na¬ 
tions on the earth fhould embrace. Hooker. 
HOS'PITALLER, f. [Jiofpitallier, Fr. hofpitalarius, low 
Lat. from hojpit.alj One redding-in an ho'ipital, in order 
to receive the poor or ftranger. Ufed perhaps peculiarly 
of the knights of Malta. See the article Knight. 
To HOS'PITATE, u. a. \_hofpitor , Lat.] To refide un¬ 
der the roof of another.—That always chufes an empty 
fhell, and this hofpitates with the living animal in the lame 
{hell. Grew. 
HOS PITICIDE, [ [from hofpes, Lat. a gueft ; and cee- 
do, to kill.] One that kills his gueft, one that kills his 
holt. Scott. i 
FIOSPIT'IUM, f. A term ufed in old writers either for 
an inn or a'monaftery, built for the reception of ftrangers 
and travellers. 
HOSPITULA'RIA, f. in old records, a room or place, 
in religious houfes where ftrangers are entertained. 
HOSPITULA'RIUS, f. in old records, the perfon who 
had the care of the hofpitularia. 
HOS'PODAR, a title borne by the princes of Wala¬ 
chia and Moldavia, who receive the inveftiture of their 
principalities from the grand fignior. 
HOST, f. Ihofle, Fr. hofpcs, hofpitis , Lat.] One who gives 
entertainment to another.—Homer never entertained ei¬ 
ther guefts or hojls with long fpeeches, till the mouth of 
hunger be flopped. 'Sidney. —The landlord of an inn: 
Time’s like a falhionable hojl. 
That flightly (hakes his parting gueft by th’ hand ; 
But with his arms out-flretch’d, as he would fly, 
Grafps in the comer. Shakefpeare. 
[From hqjlis, Lat.] An army; numbers aftembled for war : 
Let every foldier hew him down a bough, 
And bear’t before him, thereby fliall we lhadow 
The numbers of our hojl. S’hakefpeare. 
Any great number: 
Give to a gracious mefiage 
A hojl of tongues : but let ill tidings tell 
Themfelves, when they be felt. Shakefpeare. 
\Hoftia, Lat. hojlie, Fr.] The facrifice of the mafs in the 
Romifh church ; the confecrated wafer.—When I was in 
catholic countries, I never declined kneeling in their 
churches at the elevation, nor elfewhere when the hojl 
went by. Chef erf eid. 
To HOST, v.n. To take up entertainment; to live, as 
at an inn: 
Go, bear it to the Centaur, where we hojl ; 
And flay there, Bromio, till I come to thee. Shakefpeare. 
To encounter in battle. To review a body of men; to 
muller. Obfolete. 
To [iOST, v. a. To give entertainment to.—Such was 
that hag, unmeet to hojl fuch-guefts. Spcnfer. 
HOS'TAGE, f. [from of age, Fr.] One given in pledge 
for fecurity of performance of conditions: 
Your, hofages I have, fo have you mine; 
And we (hall talk before we light. Shakefpeare. 
HOST ATI A, a town of Iftria : fix miles north of Ro- 
vigno. 
H.OSTE, or L’Hoste (John), a French mathematician 
and engineer, born at Nancy in Lorrain, but in what year 
is uncertain. For fome time he was profeflbr-of civil and 
canon law in the univerfity of Pont-a-Moufion ; and af¬ 
terwards occupied the mathematical chair, for which he 
appears to have been belt adapted. By the talents which 
he difplayed, he recommended himfelf to the favour of 
Henry duke of Lorrain, who removed him from his pro- 
ftlforlhip to Na.acy, where he appointed him to the polts of 
HOS 
intendant of fortifications, principal engineer, and cov.n- 
fellorof war. L’Hofte fortified Nancy, and publilhed nu¬ 
merous valuable mathematical treatifes. He died in the 
year 1631. The following are the titles of fome of his 
principal works: 1. Lt Sotmnaire & I'Ufage de la Sphere Ar- 
tificielle, 4_to. 2. La Pratique de Geometric , 4to. 3. Dccrip- 
tion & Ufage des principaux biftrumens de Geometric. 4. Du 
Cadran & Quarre. 5. Rayon AJlronomique. 6 . Baton de'Ja¬ 
cob. 7. Interpretation du grand. Art de Raymond Lulle, &c. 
HOSTE, or L’Hoste (Paul), a French Jefuit, and pro- 
felfor-royal of mathematics at Toulon, born at Pont-de- 
Vell, in 1652. He entered into the order in the year 
1669, and afterwards took feveral voyages with marlhals 
d’Eftrees and de Tourville, and the duke de Mortemart, 
whom he accompanied,, for twelve years, in their naval 
expeditions. The marlhal de Tourville entertained a 
great regard for him, and it was in confequence of his 
converfations with that commander, that he compofed his 
Treatife on the Conftrudli.on of Ships. Pie died at Tou¬ 
lon in 1700, in* the forty-ninth year of his age. He is 
principally known by his Treatife on .Naval Evolutions, 
1697, folio, which was reprinted in 1727, with correc¬ 
tions and enlargements. Annexed to it is the treatife al¬ 
ready mentioned, On the Conftruition of Ships. He alfo 
publifned, A Collection of fuch Mathematical Treaties 
as are molt requilite for an Officer, 1692, in 3 vols. nrao. 
HOS'TEA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs pentan- 
dria, order digynia. The generic efiential charafters are— 
Corolla twilled, wheel-lhaped ; nectary ftellate, covering 
the parts of fructification ; folicles five-angled. 
Holtea viridiflora, a fingle fpecies : leaves oppofite, ob¬ 
long, acute both fides, very entire; racemes firnple, fmall, 
few-flowered, axillary. Native of Guiana. 
HOS'TEL, or Hostelry, J. \_hofcl, hojielerie, Fr.] An 
inn. 
HOSTELA'GIUM, f. in old records, the right which 
the lord of a manor claimed to lodge in the houle of iiis 
tenant. 
HOS'TELER, f. An innkeeper. Scott. 
HOS / TER, J. One that takes in lodgers. Scott. 
HOS'TERY. See FIostry. 
HOS'TESS, J. [ kopJJ'e , Fr. from hojlj A female holt; 
a woman that gives entertainment: 
Fair and noble hojlefs , 
We are your guefl to-night. Shakefpeare. 
A woman that keeps a houle of public entertainment.— 
Undiftinguilhed civility is like a whore or a hofejs. Temple. 
HOS'TESS-SHIP,/ The character of a hoftefs: 
It is my father’s will I fliould take on me 
r The ho]lefs-fiip o’ th’ day; you’re welcome, firs. Shakefp. 
HOS'TIA, f in Roman antiquity, a lacrifice to the 
gods for victory over an enemy. 
HOS'TICIDE, f. [from hojlis, Lat. an enemy, and cado, 
to kill.] One who kills an enemy. 
HOSTILA'RIA, f. in old records, the place in a reli¬ 
gious houle where ltrangers were to be entertained. Scott. 
HOSTILA'RIUS, J\ The perfon who had the care of 
the holtiiaria. Phillips. 
HOS'TILE, adj. ' [_hoJHlis, Lat.] Adverfe; oppofite; 
fuitable to an enemy : 
Fierce Juno’s hate, 
Added to. kof i/e force, lliall urge thy fate. Drydcn. 
H 0 STILHA, in ancient geography, a large town 011 
the Po. Tacitus. 
HOSTILI'NA, in heathen mythology, the goddefs who 
was luppofed to prefide over the corn while ihooting into 
the ear. 
IIOSTIL'ITY, f [hqjhlite, Fr. from kofilej The prac¬ 
tices oi an open enemy ; open war; op po lit ion in war.—- 
We have lliow’d ourlelves fair, nay generous, adverlanes ; 
and Lave carried on even our hbjlilities with humanity. At- 
terbury. - 
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