cellarer

American  

[sel-er-er] / ˈsɛl ər ər /

noun

1. a person in a monastery or community who is responsible for supplying food and drink.

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cellarer British  

/ ˈsɛlərə /

noun

1. a monastic official responsible for food, drink, etc

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Example Sentences

In the section of the book addressing the cellarer — the person in charge of the monastery’s provisions — St. Benedict tells the cellarer to treat everyone who comes to him with a kind word, and to treat all the inanimate objects in his storehouse “as if they were consecrated vessels of the altar.”

From Los Angeles Times

“We are proud that we are American,” said the Rev. Martin Bernhard, who is from Texas and is the cellarer of the monastery.

From New York Times

Afterwards the usurer came to ask for his deposit, but when the cellarer opened the chest, he found neither that nor his own money.

From Project Gutenberg

A certain usurer committed a large sum of his money to a certain cellarer of our order to be kept for him.

From Project Gutenberg

Temporal princes were more ready to turn the power of confirmation to profitable account, and few imitated the example of Philip Augustus, who, when the abbacy of St. Denis became vacant, and the provost, the treasurer, and the cellarer of the abbey each sought him secretly, and gave him five hundred livres for the succession, quietly went to the abbey, picked out a simple monk standing in a corner, conferred the dignity on him, and handed him the fifteen hundred livres.

From Project Gutenberg