hospitate

verb

1. To receive with hospitality; to provide lodging to a guest.

   obsolete

   In these days people do not hospitate, but, when forced to invite 5 acquaintances into their houses they entertain them, as many as possible, at crowded receptions and teas.

2. To receive hospitality; to be a guest.

   intransitive, obsolete

   That always chooses an empty shell, this hospitates with the living Animal in the same ſhell

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin hospitātus, perfect passive participle of hospitō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hospitate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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