custos
Americannoun
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(italics) a custodian.
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a superior in the Franciscan order.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of custos
1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin
Example Sentences
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The Very Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, custos of the Holy Land, will speak about “Struggle and Hope in the Holy Land.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2015
Sternunt se somno diversae in litore phocae; ipse, velut stabuli custos in montibus olim, vesper ubi e pastu vitulos ad tecta reducit 120 auditisque lupos acuunt balatibus agni, considit scopulo medius, numerumque recenset.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
"That he'd do what?" exclaimed Mr. Barnardistone Flinthert, late high-sheriff and present magistrate and custos rotulorum of Midshire.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James
The lord-lieutenant now usually holds the older office of custos rotulorum, or keeper of the records of the county.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
He was also the first custos of Ashmole’s Museum, which could not have been an easy office since “twelve cartloads of Trades cant’s rarities” arrived in Oxford to form its nucleus.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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