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Answer for the clue "A close attendant (as to a scholar) ", 7 letters:
famulus

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Famulus (possibly Fabulus , Fabullus , or Amulius ) was a fresco painter famous for his work in the Domus Aurea , Rome, that was commissioned by Nero . Because he was mentioned by Pliny the Elder , he is one of the earliest artists in Europe for which a ...

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n. a close attendant

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n. a close attendant (as to a scholar) [also: famuli (pl)]

Usage examples of famulus.

Clothahump continued talking to Jon-Tom while examining his innocent-eyed famulus the way he would a new metal or something interesting found beneath a stump.

He trundled over to the study exit and prepared to shoulder one of the two heavy packs the famulus had prepared.

The famulus was confident enough to edge back around from behind the tree, since it appeared nothing was going to blast the earth out from beneath his feathers.

This is the great wizard Clothahump, his famulus Sorbl, and my friend and traveling companion, Mudge.

Arabs in the past, a related race after all, hence the purely chemical tendency in medicine, whereas naturopathy, in the end it all boils down to the question of the organic and the inorganic as such: it was not without reason that Goethe identified the effort to make a homunculus not with Faust but with Wagner his famulus, because Wagner, it is safe to assume, represents the typically Jewish element, whereas Faust: because one thing is certain, they are without genius of any kind.

A famulus was the attendant of a sorcerer or warlock in medieval days.

If it was a torch or glow bulb, it probably meant that Clothahump had caught his famulus in the chemicals again and was chasing him around the tree.

Graydon, crouching behind the burros, that he had not seen the cloaked famulus of Suarra join the retreat and seek the shelter of the woods.

Domine, commendamus animam famuli tuae, Udauti, ut defunctus saeculo tibi vivat.