The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hospitium \Hos*pi"ti*um\, n. [L. See Hospice.]
An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [Obs.]
(Law) An inn of court.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) An inn; a lodging; a hospice. 2 (context obsolete legal English) An inn of court.
Wikipedia
Hospitium (, xenia, προξενία) is the ancient Greco-Roman concept of hospitality as a divine right of the guest and a divine duty of the host. Similar or broadly equivalent customs were and are also known in other cultures, though not always by that name. Among the Greeks and Romans, hospitium was of a twofold character: private and public.
Usage examples of "hospitium".
I have been thinking of establishing a small hospitium in that old weaving shed near the moat.
Then he turned his back on Tyra and began to discuss the potential hospitium project with Breanne in earnest.
He had come to study a unique hospitium, and Tykir had made innumerable visits during his amber-trading days.
Tyra and began to discuss the potential hospitium project with Breanne in earnest.
I take you to the hospitium, that you will speak only when I allow and obey my every command?
And, if you must know, I take you to the hospitium so you may find work to fill your days when I leave Jorvik.
You cannot go into the hospitium claiming to one and all that you are a woman doctor.
Selik moved quickly ahead of him into the hospitium before Father Bernard changed his mind.
Fascinated, Rain decided that she definitely wanted to return to the hospitium and learn all she could about this primitive medical facility.
Rain had, no doubt, gone off to the hospitium in Jorvik, where she performed her good deeds among the culdees.
She went into the hospitium every day to work, and the monks, in payment, reluctantly handed over cloth bags full of food for her orphans.
Selik insisted on accompanying Rain to the hospitium for her usual rounds.
Selik brushed past Father Bernard, and his eyes scanned the hospitium, finally locking on the tall, tunic-clad figure bent over a patient.
Selik showed up at the hospitium, looking absolutely gorgeous in a gray wool tunic with black braies and mantle.
And every building in the city that is not a place of buying, selling, trading or warehousing of goods seems to be a hospitium or a deversorium for lodging those visitors, or a therma for bathing and refreshing them, or a taberna or caupona for feeding them, or a lupanar for their sexual diversion.