manciple
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of manciple
1150–1200 in sense “slave”; Middle English < Middle French manciple, variant of mancipe < Medieval Latin mancipium, Latin: a possession, slave, originally, ownership, equivalent to mancip-, stem of manceps contractor, agent ( man ( us ) hand + -cep-, combining form of capere to take ( see concept) + -s nominative singular ending) + -ium -ium
Example Sentences
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Enter the amateur, in this case Insurance Investigator Peter Manciple, who knows Devonshire like the back of his hand: he attended public school there, and was dubbed "Mathematics" Manciple by one professor.
From Time Magazine Archive
They all converge on Manciple, who alone seems to have the clues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Take care, Sir Manciple, that he be not some light juggler, a singer of vain songs, a mocker.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
Manciple, man′si-pl, n. a steward: a purveyor, particularly of a college or an inn of court.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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