Associations to the word «Spital»

Wiktionary

SPITAL, 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats