a. Obs. rare–1. [f. Gr. ξενοδοχία (XENODOCHY2) + -AL.] Given to receiving strangers; hospitable.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 402. The Insuperable Aversion, that those three Xenodochial Prelates seem’d always to exert against the French Nation. Ibid., 404.
