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▪ I. host, n.1|həʊst|
Forms: α. 3–6 ost(e, 4–5 oost, 4–6 ooste, 6 oast, 6–7 Sc. oyst. β. 4–6 hoost, 4–7 hoste, 5–6 hooste, 6–7 hoast, Sc. hoist, 4– host.
[a. OF. ost, host, oost, hoost army (10th c. in Godef.) = It. oste, Sp. hueste, Pg. hoste:—L. hostem (hostis) stranger, enemy, in med.L. army, warlike expedition. The Latin h, lost in Romanic, was gradually readopted in OF. and ME. spelling, and hence in mod.Eng. pronunciation.]
1. An armed company or multitude of men; an army. Now arch. and poet.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 13/431 His sone a-ȝein þe Aumperour with is ost he wende. a1300Cursor M. 6160 Of egypte godds ost [Trin. hoost] vte vend. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14336 Þey..gadered folk, & hostes ledde. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 252 Weend þider with þin host [v. rr. ost, oost]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. cxxvii[i]. (Bodl. MS.), Þer was no corner of þe worlde wide but he feelde þe swerd of þe oste of Rome. 1526Tindale Acts xxviii. 16 The chefe captayne of the host. a1555Lyndesay Tragedie 163, I rasit ane oyste of mony bald Baroun. a1592H. Smith Serm. (1637) 148 As Samuel would not come to Saul, so wisdome will not come to that oast. 1605Shakes. Macb. v. iv. 6 Thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our Hoast. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Will. 7 Of them qvha comes to the hoist. 1700Dryden Ajax & Ulysses 214 Who better can succeed Achilles lost Than he who gave Achilles to your hoast? 1715–20Pope Iliad ii. 201 Haste, goddess, haste! the flying host detain. 1840Thirlwall Greece lvii. VII. 211 She was..not daunted by the sight of the armed host which surrounded her. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xvii. 30 The leaders of the host were exhorted to gentleness and moderation.
b. fig. and transf.
[c1315Shoreham 15 A prince of Godes ost Schel do the confermynge None loȝer, Therfore hit mot a bisschope be.] 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4475 Gog and Magog es noght elles Bot þe host of anticrist. c1400Rom. Rose 5859 Fonde Shame adowne to brynge, With alle her oost erly and late. 1573J. Sandford Hours Recreat. (1576) 56 That an host of Hartes is more to be feared that is ruled by a Lyon, than an hoste of Lyons ruled by an Hart. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. 21 All the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright. 1773Burke Corr. (1844) I. 417 He was a host of debaters in himself. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xix. 374 It is a word which..is a host of imagery and doctrine in itself. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxvii. (1878) 470 Arcturus and his host.
†c. A warlike gathering; cf. hosting. Sc. Obs.
1807Grierson St. Andrews 74 A clause binding the latter to attend and protect the former in all reids and hosts.
2. transf. A great company; a multitude; a large number.
[c1440Gesta Rom. xii. 38 (Harl. MS.) The king maade him redy to come to þe Emperour, with a gret oost, for to wedde his dowter.] 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 269 The three Hostes [caravans] cast themselves into a triangle. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xii, Defend this lady against your host of Monks. 1840F. Trollope Widow Married viii, The examination of a host of trunks just arrived from France. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 11 What a host of thoughts and images that one name carries! 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 234 They produce a host of books written by Musaeus and Orpheus.
†b. A name for a ‘company’ of sparrows. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans F vj b, An Ost of sparowis.
3. In Biblical and derived uses:
a. host or hosts of heaven (Heb. ts'bā hashshāmayim) is applied to (a) the multitude of angels that attend upon God, and (b) the sun, moon, and stars.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings xxii. 19, I saw the Lord vpon his see sittynge, and al the oost of heuene stondynge neeȝ to hym. 1535Coverdale Gen. ii. 1 Thus was heauen and earth fynished with all their hoost. ― Deut. xvii. 3 Sonne or Mone, or eny of the hooste of heauen. 1611Bible Josh. v. 14 As captaine of the hoste of the Lord am I now come. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 606 Hesperus that led The starrie Host. Ibid. v. 710 His count'nance..Drew after him the third part of Heav'ns Host. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. i. (1847) 5 The worship of the host of heaven.
b. Lord (God) of Hosts (Jehovah Ts'bāōth): a frequent title of Jehovah in certain books of the Old Testament; app. referring sometimes to the heavenly hosts (see a), sometimes to the armies of Israel, and hence in modern use with the sense ‘God of armies’ or ‘of battles’.
1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xvii. 45 Y come to thee in the name of the Lord God of oostis, God of the cumpanyes of Israel. ― Zech. i. 3 Be ȝe conuerted to me, saith the Lord of oostis. 1535Coverdale Zech. xiv. 21 All the kettels in Ierusalem and Iuda, shalbe holy vnto the Lorde of hoostes. 1569in Q. Eliz. Prayer Bk. App. v. (1890) 225 O most myghtie God, the Lorde of hoastes..the only geuer of all victories. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 78 The Lord of Hosts, i.e. of all things visible and invisible..of all things animate and inanimate, which, in the history of Creation, are called, the host of heaven and earth, the one host of God. 1891A. F. Kirkpatrick in Camb. Bible for Schools, Psalms xxiv. 10 note. 1897R. Kipling Recessional, Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget.
▪ II. host, n.2|həʊst|
Forms: α. 3–7 oste, 4–5 ost, 5–6 ooste, 6–8 oast. β. 4– host; also 4–6 hoost(e, 4–7 hoste, 6 Sc. hoist, 6–7 hoast.
[a. OF. oste, hoste (12th c. in Littré), mod.F. hôte host, guest = It. oste:—L. hospit-em (hospes) host, guest, stranger, foreigner. For resumption of h, cf. prec.]
1. A man who lodges and entertains another in his house: the correlative of guest.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4601 And ȝyt shall he make sum robbery, Or begyle hys hoste þer he shal lye. 1388Wyclif Rom. xvi. 23 Gayus myn oost [1382 my herborgere; 1526 Tindale myne hoste; 1611 mine hoste] greeteth ȝou wel. 1531Tindale Exp. I John (1537) 98 Gaius..whome Paule..calleth hys ooste and the ooste of all the congregacion. 1580Sidney Arcadia ii. (1622) 173 A tedious guest to a loathsome oast. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. vi. 29 Conduct me to mine Host, we loue him highly. 1700Dryden Baucis & Phil. 118 But the kind hosts their entertainment grace, With hearty welcome, and an open face. 1708E. Cook Sot-weed Factor (1865) 10 Pleas'd with the Treatment I did find, I took my leave of Oast so kind. 1870Dickens E. Drood viii, You are almost in the position of host to-night.
2. spec. A man who lodges and entertains for payment; a man who keeps a public place of lodging or entertainment; the landlord of an inn. Often in archaic phr. mine (my) host = the landlord of such and such an inn.
c1290Beket 1176 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 140 At one gode mannes house his In a-niȝt he nam..his oste nam wel god ȝeme hov heo heom alle bere. c1386Chaucer Prol. 747 Greet chiere made oure hoost [v. rr. ost, oste, hooste] vs euerichon. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 222 Efter soper, sayd myne oste, That he cowth noght tel the day That ani knight are with him lay. 1573J. Sandford Hours Recreat. (1576) 145 Lodged in an Inne..Whereuppon the Hoste asked him payment. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 100 Mine Host of the Garter. 1653Walton Angler ii. 45 Tell me freely how you like my Hoste, and the company? is not mine Hoste a witty man? 1805Wordsw. Waggoner i. 90 Who does not know the famous Swan? Object uncouth! and yet our boast, For it was painted by the Host. 1858Murray's Hand-bk. N. Germ. 58 The two daughters of mine host are both fair and graceful in their national costume. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvii. 121, I was informed by my host that [etc.]. 1909Wodehouse Mike xii. 66 That was the supreme moment in mine host's life. 1934― Right Ho, Jeeves x. 123, I entered the saloon bar and requested mine host to start pouring. 1973J. Porter It's Murder with Dover vii. 67 Dover set about cross-questioning the landlord... Mine host stuck to his guns.
b. Prov. to reckon († count) without († before) one's host: to calculate one's bill or score without consulting one's host or landlord; to come to conclusions without taking into consideration some important circumstance of the case.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn lii. 202 It ys sayd in comyn that ‘who soeuer rekeneth wythoute his hoste, he rekeneth twys for ones’. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 991/2 He fareth lo lyke a geste, that maketh hys rekening himselfe without hys hoste. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 131 b, Thei reckened before their host, and so paied more then their shotte came to. 1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 649 He that countis without his oist, Oft tymes he countis twyse. 1698Vanbrugh 2nd Pt. æsop iii, But here, alas! he found to's cost, He had reckon'd long without his host. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xv, But hostess as she was herself,..she reckoned without her host in the present instance. 1877[see count v. 7]. 1886Symonds Catholic React. ii. 174 He [Bruno] reckoned strangely in this matter, without the murderous host into whose clutches he had fallen.
3. a. Biol. An animal or plant having a parasite or commensal habitually living in or upon it.
1857Lankester tr. Küchenmeister's Anim. Paras. I. Introd. 4 They usually emigrate once into the external world, generally with the excrements of the hosts of their parents. Note, Host is a literal translation of the German ‘Wirth’, and although not perhaps previously used in the above sense in the English language, I have adopted it to prevent a somewhat tedious circumlocution. 1862Intell. Observ. I. 115 The mode in which the liver flukes gain access to their hosts, or in other words to the bodies of the herbivorous animals they frequent. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 733 Cuscuta is nourished exclusively by the haustoria which penetrate into the tissue of the host. 1892Brady Addr. Tyneside Field Club 9 To complete the life-cycle of any one of these creatures [tape-worms], successive residence is necessary in the bodies of two distinct species of animal,..thus called the ‘intermediate host’ and the ‘final host’.
b. Biol. and Med. An animal or person that is the recipient of tissue, an organ, etc., that has been transplanted into it from another.
1906Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Dec. 1796/1 Entire organs may be transplanted by anastomosis of their blood vessels to suitable points on the circulatory apparatus of the host. 1923H. Neuhof Transplantation of Tissues i. 9 Experiments..continued from six to nine months showed the transplant completely replaced by a connective tissue derived from the host. 1958New Biol. XXVII. 42 The host reacts to the antigens of the graft by producing antibodies. 1961New Scientist 5 Jan. 45/3 Cells of both the donor of the graft tissue, and the recipient host, played a part in the immune reaction.
†4. A guest. Cf. hoastman. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. III. 205 How he [Lichaon]..His hostes slough and into mete He made her bodies to ben ete. 1490Caxton Eneydos xviii. 68 An hoste that lightly forgeteth his lodgynge..and departeth Ioyously wythout to haue eny rewthe. 1518Merch. Adv. Newcastle (Surtees) 51 The ostmen that byes any merchaundyse of ther hosts. 1559Mirr. Mag., Jas. I, vii, They took me prisoner, not as oste.
5. a. Geol. A mineral mass containing a different mineral; a rock containing an ore deposit or foreign rock. Freq. attrib.
1889Cent. Dict. III, Host, a mineral which incloses another. 1950E. E. Wahlstrom Introd. Theor. Igneous Petrol. iv. 80 Perthites are intergrowths of two feldspars. Commonly the host mineral (that is, the more abundant mineral) is potash feldspar. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. i. 1/1 These are the host-rocks of the gold mineralization west of the Alps.
b. Physics and Chem. A crystal lattice or molecular structure containing a foreign ion, atom, or molecule; spec. (i) a crystal or a crystalline material to which a small amount of some impurity has been added to make it luminescent; (ii) that component of a clathrate compound that encloses or surrounds the other component. Usu. attrib.
1939Trans. Faraday Soc. XXXV. 126 It may be imagined that the function of the activating impurity is to enter the host lattice and produce therein centres of distortion. 1950H. W. Leverenz Introd. Luminescence of Solids vi. 369 A host crystal should not be strongly absorbing in the spectral region where efficient luminescence emission is to be produced. 1956Nature 22 Dec. 1410/1 Various instances are known of continuous crystalline ‘host’ lattices within which ‘guest’ molecules may be trapped... Among inorganic lattices the best known are the crystalline zeolites. 1961L. F. & M. Fieser Adv. Org. Chem. xxii. 771 They are similar to the urea inclusion complexes..except that the host is a covalently bonded molecule with a hole in it. 1967Vanders & Kerr Mineral Recognition v. 85/2 At high temperatures, foreign ions are dissolved in the solid host crystal. 1968Proc. Internat. Conf. Luminescence Budapest (1966) I. 1289 Luminescence of crystalline phosphors is strongly connected with the structure of the host crystal.
6. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) host country, host government, host population, host society; (sense 3) host animal, host cell, host-parasite (used appos.), host plant; host-specific adj. (so host-specificity); host-controlled, host-induced adjs. See also sense 5.
1956Nature 10 Mar. 453/1 It is reasonable to attribute these changes to the high dose of radiation delivered to the *host-animal and so to identify the cells containing them as host cells.
1954Science 16 July 110/1 (heading) Action of T2r+ bacteriophage on *host-cell membranes. 1958Spectator 22 Aug. 252/1 The life of the virus is so closely linked with that of the host cell that one cannot be attacked without injury to the other.
1965Ann. Rev. Microbiol. XIX. 365 *Host-controlled modification of viruses is a general term applied to those cases in which passage through certain host strains imparts one or more new, nonheritable properties to the virus without altering its genetic information content.
1959Manch. Guardian 21 July 1/7 The technical staff of control posts..should consist of one-third *host-country nationals. 1962Times 18 Dec. 11/7 The ‘host countries’..are [not] able economically to absorb the refugees permanently. 1969H. MacInnes Salzburg Connection ix. 131 Switzerland is the host country.
1960Economist 15 Oct. 263/1 Certain of the important ‘*host governments’ of countries where the oil is actually produced chose not to come.
1953Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. XVIII. 237 (heading) *Host-induced modifications of viruses.
1946Nature 6 July 30/2 *Host-parasite relations. 1964V. J. Chapman Coastal Veget. iii. 77 Plants of course may exhibit host-parasite relations.
1888Athenæum 28 Jan. 119/1 Preparations showing the entrance of the potato fungus into the *host⁓plant. 1889Scot. Leader 19 June 7 The part played by the barberry as a ‘host plant’ in producing mildew. 1959Southwood & Leston Land & Water Bugs viii. 239 This species may be found in great abundance on its host-plant.
1971Guardian 24 July 7/2 The feelings of any *host population towards immigrants included suspicion, fear, and irritation.
1961S. R. Herman in J. A. Fishman Reading Sociol. Lang. (1968) 509 Our analysis implies a cautionary note for the attitude of a *host society to newcomers. The host society may legitimately wish to encourage the use of its language by the newcomers, but it may aggravate the problem of adjustment if it insists too strictly on the adherence to its language norms. 1969Listener 13 Nov. 664/1 Just one sign of the equivocal welcome meted out by the host society. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 159 The changers displayed more of behavioral and psychological affinities toward the host society than the nonchangers.
1969New Scientist 13 Mar. 23/1 WHO workers introduced a *host-specific pathogenic fungus which kills mosquito larvae.
1951Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xxiv. 376 The viruses have the same wide range of *host-specificity as the bacteria.
Sense 6 in Dict. becomes 7. Add: [2.] c. transf. One who hosts a programme of entertainment, a compère; esp. the presenter of a television or radio show to which guests are invited or which is broadcast before a live audience.
1948Prairie Club. Bull. June 14 A big hand for Charles, Our Star Square Dance Host! 1974Keowee Courier (Walhalla, S. Carolina) 24 Apr. 3/4 Peter Falk..will serve as on-camera host. 1981P. F. Boller Presidential Anecdotes 348 For eight years he acted as host and occasional star of General Electric Theater, a half-hour TV series.
6. Computing.
a. In full host computer, host system. A computer which mediates (usu. multiple) access to files mounted on it, or provides other services to a network of other computers or terminals. Cf. *server n., main frame s.v. main a. 11.
1966C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. (1967) 142/2 Host computer, a computer that is connected to a stored-program multiplexor and which is the base or independent computer upon which the multiplexor is dependent for certain vital functions as program read-in, etc. 1970Sci. Jrnl. Oct. 63/1 The multi-access computers, known as ‘hosts’, communicate with the nearest IMP [sc. Interface Message Processor] of the ARPA network which permits a subscriber at one host computer to communicate with another host, offering services different from his own host machine. 1976New Scientist 13 May 352/1 An example is the situation where a central computer—a ‘host’ in the current jargon—wishes to communicate with a variety of different types of terminal. 198380 Micro Feb. 8/3 Such networking calls for some power in the host system. 1983Mini-Micro Syst. July 166/1 A few [graphics workstations] are used in networks with other workstations, minicomputers and microcomputers. Most are intended for use with supermini or mainframe hosts. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 132/1 (Advt.), You can then use disk utilities, print a file, dial a host computer, use terminal mode, or initiate a file transfer.
b. An institution which operates such a computer.
1982A. J. Meadows et al. Dict. New Information Technol. 85/2 Host, (sometimes also called an information spinner, information vendor, or on-line retailer) a host is an entrepreneur who makes available a number of databases through his own computer. 1986Practical Computing Oct. 108/3 The number of computer databases available to the public is now well over 2,500, from several hundred different hosts.
▪ III. † host, n.3 Obs.
Forms: 4 ooste, hoost(e, 5 ost(e, host(e.
[? ad. OF. hosté, osté, var. of hostel, ostel hostel. The pl. of the latter was often ostez, ostes, whence by reaction the sing. osté; mod.F. dialects have hôté, ôté. For the loss of final -e in Eng. cf. assign n., avowe n.]
A place of lodging or entertainment; a hostel, inn.
1382Wyclif Acts xxviii. 23 Mo camen to him in to the hoost, or herbore [1388 the in]. ― Philem. 22 Make redy to me an ooste [gloss or hous for to dwelle inne]. c1440Gesta Rom. xxiv. 89 (Harl. MS.) Thes two yong knyghtes yede to her oste in þe cite. Ibid. lxi. 257 His squier soȝte an host, for swiche a worthi knyȝt to be eside ynne. c1450Lonelich Grail xxxv. 26 An old vauasour that kepte An Ost, & was A Man of honour.
b. Phr. to be (or lie) at host: to be lodged or entertained; to be put up at an inn; fig. to be on familiar terms or at home with.
c1450Merlin 171 This mayden..was at hoste with a riche burgeys. 1554H. Weston in Latimer's Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 264, I will be at host with you anon. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Diuerti ad aliquem in hospitium,..to be at host with one. 1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. 35 Crowes and Rauens..are at hoste with euery kind of fruite in the Orchard. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 410 Your goods that lay at host..in the Centaur.
▪ IV. host, n.4|həʊst|
Forms: α. 4 oyst, 4–5 oost, 4–7 ost(e, 6 oast. β. 4–6 hoost(e, hoste, 6–7 hoast(e, 5– host.
[a. OF. oiste, hoiste:—L. hostia victim, sacrifice. At an early stage the Eng. word became assimilated in form to the prec. ns., of which ost, oost, hoost, etc. were the normal etymological forms. See also hostie.]
†1. A victim for sacrifice; a sacrifice (lit. and fig.): often said of Christ. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxvi. 11, I offird in his tabernakile þe hoste of heghynge of voice. 1382Wyclif Phil. iv. 18 A couenable oost [gloss or sacrifice], plesynge to God. ― 1 Pet. ii. 5 To offre spiritual hoostes [gloss or offringes] acceptable to God bi Jhesu Crist. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 44 Þat I myght offre my self an acceptable oost to hym. 1563Homilies ii. Sacram. ii. (1859) 448 Let us..offer always to God the host or sacrifice of praise by Christ. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. ii. Fathers 287 Anon said Isaac..But where's your Hoste? 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxiii. vi. 232 To goe unto the altars, or to handle an ost or sacrifice. 1653Ld. Vaux Godeau's St. Paul 310 Jesus Christ having once offered the Host of His body, is seated at the right hand of God.
2. Eccl. The bread consecrated in the Eucharist, regarded as the body of Christ sacrificially offered; a consecrated wafer. Also applied to the wafer before consecration (quots. 1687, 1881).
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 8849 He stode and heylde þe oste. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 9 He ordeyned þat þe oyst schulde be of þerf brede. c1400Apol. Loll. Introd. 7 The sacred oost is no maner breed, but either nowȝt, or accident withouten ony subiect. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 259 The host betokeneth the body of Chryst. a1583Grindal Fruitf. Dial. Rem. (1843) 46 If a little mouse get an host, he will crave no more meat to his dinner. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 164 They make their Hosts of Flower kned with Wine and Oil. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 28 Such as scruple to kneel at the host. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 19 Omitting the words which convey the idea of a sacrifice, and the ceremony of the elevation of the host. 1881Shorthouse J. Inglesant I. x. 191 An apothecary, who also was useful to the Catholics, making ‘Hosts’ for them.
3. attrib., as (sense 2) host-bearer, host-cup.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 465/1 Host Cup. 1890O. Crawfurd Round Calend. Port. 4 The solemn chant of the Host-Bearers.
▪ V. † host, v.1 Obs.
[f. host n.1]
1. trans. To gather into a host; to assemble in battle array, to encamp. (Cf. hosting vbl. n.)
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1190 Betere hom adde ibe at rome, þan iiousted [MS.B. y osted] þere. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 16 The whill the host was thus in Ossory..these tweyn, as har wone was, weren both I-hosted to-gedderes.
2. intr. To be assembled or gather in a host.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas ii. i. (1554) 42 a, As they lay hostyng Not farre asonder, and Saul lay an slepe. 1787J. Barlow Vis. Columbus vi. 173 With scanty force, where should he lift the steel, While hosting foes immeasurably wheel?
▪ VI. host, v.2
[f. host n.2]
1. a. trans. To receive (any one) into one's house and entertain as a guest. Also, to receive into one's town, country, etc.; to be the host at (a party, dinner, etc.); to compère (a television show, etc.).
1485Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 10 §3 That no Straunger..shuld oste or take to sojourne with hym within this Realme of England any Merchaunt Straunger. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. xii, Fuluius..caused him to be hosted with a worshipfull man. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. viii. 27 Such was that Hag, unmeet to host such guests. 1613T. Milles tr. Mexia's Treas. Anc. & Mod. Times I. 20/2 Nowhere should he account himselfe eyther a Stranger, or to be Hosted. [1894R. Leighton Wreck Golden Fleece 61 They [fishing smacks] were ‘hosted’ by Lowestoft merchants, to whom they sold their fish. ]1939John o' London's 7 Apr. 42/3, I am not surprised that Messrs. Auden and Isherwood came away with a sense of deep and humble respect for the people and the country who had hosted them. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 87 He went right out and bought a pint of whisky to host me proper. 1958I. Asimov Whiff of Death (1968) vi. 55 Those comments applying to him were read at the celebration dinner hosted (invariably) by Anson himself. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. i. 12/2 Dorchester man has been hosting a series of unusual farewell parties. 1967Boston Globe 30 Mar. 15/2 The delegation of 25 men and women..will be hosted by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and Burlington town officials. 1967New Yorker 1 Apr. 129 (Advt.), Bob Hope hosts the annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presentation. 1969N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) ix. 88 He..sold Murray the K T-shirts and hosted albums of Murray the K's Golden Gassers. 1969New Yorker 29 Mar. 24/1 Let us host you at the Kahala Hilton, on one of Oahu's most beautiful beaches. 1969Guardian 19 July 9/1 There will be David Frost, hosting ITV's night-long bonanza of touchdown and pop stars. 1973Times 9 Feb. 8/8 The session was hosted by Mr. William Fulbright.
b. intr. To play the host.
1868Bp. Wilberforce in Collect. & Recoll. xv. (1898) 202 The great power of charming and pleasant host-ing possessed by Salisbury. 1957Time 2 Sept. 34/2 Critic John Crosby, currently on leave from his TV syndicated column to polish up on his broadcast manners, will host. 1962H. Kane Killer's Kiss xxviii. 216, I must do a bit more hosting—I'm expecting some special people.
†2. intr. To be a guest; to lodge, put up. Obs.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 3978 He ostyd at haly eland. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 30 Great bost and small roste, Maketh vnsauery mouthes, where ever men oste. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. ii. 9 Goe beare it to the Centaure, where we host. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 386 Antiochus, falling in love with..the daughter of Cleoptolemus, where he hosted.
▪ VII. host
var. hoast n. and v., cough. |