Spital Definition

spĭtl
noun
A hospital, esp. one for the poor or for lepers, etc.
Webster's New World
A travelers' wayside shelter.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Spital

Noun

Singular:
spital
Plural:
spitals

Origin of Spital

  • Middle English spitel short for hospital hospital

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English spitel; ultimately an aphetic form of hospital.

    From Wiktionary

Spital Sentence Examples

  • The name is derived from the fact that the land belonged to a priory of St Mary Spital, founded in 11 9 7.

  • At the age of nineteen, he was articled for five years as clerk to the master of a school in Spital Square, London, with whom at the end of that time he entered into partnership. In 1750 he read a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, which procured him election as a fellow of the society and the award of the Copley medal.

  • At Spitalfields crowds used to congregate on Easter Monday and Tuesday to hear the Spital sermons preached from the pulpit cross.

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Words Starting With

SSPSPI

Words Ending With

LALTAL

Unscrambles

spital

Words Starting With S and Ending With L

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Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With L