The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hospitaler \Hos"pi*tal*er\, n. [Written also hospitaller.] [F. hospitalier. See Hospital, and cf. Hostler.]
One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who attends visitors in a religious institution 2 A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals
Usage examples of "hospitaller".
Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.
So the brethren turned, and led by a Mameluk, fled aghast for the first time in their lives, past the long lines of Templars and Hospitallers, who in the last red light of the dying day knelt upon the sand and prayed, while the emirs came up to kill them.
The hospitaller made them welcome, and Sir Richard shepherded his party into the abbey church, to pray for the soul of its former protectress, Matilda of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany, before they even washed off the dust and mire of their journey.
By his black robe and the eight-pointed cross upon his sleeve, Alleyne recognized him as one of the Knights Hospitallers of St.
After them came all the other officers, sub-prior, sacristan, hospitaller, almoner, infirmarer, the custodian of the altar of St.
Brother Benedict the sacristan, Brother Anselm the precentor, Brother Matthew the cellarer, Brother Dennis the hospitaller, Brother Edmund the infirmarer, Brother Oswald the almoner, Brother Jerome, the prior’s clerk, and Brother Paul, master of the novices, followed by the commonalty of the convent, and a very flourishing number they made.