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Steward for a monastery
Answer for the clue "Steward for a monastery ", 8 letters:
manciple
Word definitions for manciple in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, monastery, etc.," early 13c., from Old French mancipe "servant, official, manciple," from Latin mancipium "servant, slave, slave obtained by legal transfer; the legal purchase of a thing," literally ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A manciple is a person in charge of the purchase and storage of food at an institution such as a college , monastery , or court of law . Manciples were sometimes also in charge of catering more generally, including food preparation. The title still survives ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person in charge of purchase and store food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manciple \Man"ci*ple\, n. [From OF. mancipe slave, servant (with l inserted, as in participle), fr. L. mancipium. See Mancipate .] A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. --Chaucer.
Usage examples of manciple.
Chaunceller, alle doctours, maistres, other graduats, alle studients, alle scholers, and alle clerkes, dwellyng within the precint of the Universite, of what condicion, ordre or degree soever they be, every dailly continuell servant to eny of theym bifore rehersed belonging, the styward of the Universite wyth their menyall men, also alle Bedells with their dailly servants and their householdes, all catours, manciples, spencers, cokes, lavenders, povere children of scolers or clerkes, within the precinct of the said Universite, also alle other servants taking clothing or hyre by the yere, half yere, or quarter of the yere takyng atte leste for the yere vi.
Cook may one day bring the Manciple to account, or pay him off, for the rebuke of his drunkenness.
By that the Manciple his tale had ended, The sunne from the south line was descended So lowe, that it was not to my sight Degrees nine-and-twenty as in height.