What is "infirmarer"

Usage examples of "infirmarer".

First I'm going to find the infirmarer, and have this one carried to bed, and you, too.

The infirmarer, smoothing his compress lightly into place, shook his head forebodingly.

Abbot Hugh de Lacy was there, austere and aristocratic, Norman to his finger-ends, and Brother Denis the infirmarer, no doubt busy finding excuses now for the most unruly of the cherubim and seraphim at every celestial chapter.

Though Brother Edmund the infirmarer, himself an oblate at four years old, accepted loyally what puzzled him in his brother, and was anxious only at losing his apothecary for a time.

Beholding the infirmarer, with a second habited brother beside him, he immediately lowered his gaze again to his reading, his face impassive.

The infirmarer shrugged, and laid a hand to the curtain to draw it back.

After them came all the other officers, sub-prior, sacristan, hospitaller, almoner, infirmarer, the custodian of the altar of St.

Come in, I’ll be with you very shortly, when Brother Infirmarer has all his needs.

When they are satisfied that they have gathered all the facts that can be gathered, send word to Brother Infirmarer, and he will have the body made seemly and brought to the chapel.

Cadfael looked at Brother Edmund the infirmarer, who was next to him, and saw the same thought reflected back to him.

It was not many minutes before I saw him come forth, and Brother Infirmarer making sure he departed.

So many eyes round his bed, his father erect and ravaged of face at the foot, staring upon his heir with grieved eyes, Roswitha kneeling at his right side, tearless now, but bloated with past weeping, Brother Cadfael and Brother Edmund the infirmarer watchful from the shadows in case their patient tried his strength too far too soon.

Brother Benedict the sacristan, Brother Anselm the precentor, Brother Matthew the cellarer, Brother Dennis the hospitaller, Brother Edmund the infirmarer, Brother Oswald the almoner, Brother Jerome, the prior’s clerk, and Brother Paul, master of the novices, followed by the commonalty of the convent, and a very flourishing number they made.

Brother Cadfael and Brother Edmund the infirmarer emerged into the great court just in time to see the messenger from Eaton mount his stocky Welsh cob at the gatehouse and ride unhurriedly out into the Foregate.