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Spital vs Spittal - What's the difference?

spital | spittal |

As nouns the difference between spital and spittal

is that spital is hospital while spittal is lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital.

spital

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital , a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras , he cares not […].
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    spittal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital
  • a house or place of refuge for the sick, especially one for patients with contagious diseases
  • a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks