HOS'PITALLER, noun [from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims. They were called knights of St. John, and are the same as the knights of Malta.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.