custos
Americannoun
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custodes
plural
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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
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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
Lambarde described the custos rotulorum as a “man for the most part especially picked out either for wisdom, countenance or credit.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
He was a privy councillor in Ireland, and custos rotulorum of the county of Meath.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
Sometimes the nuns themselves begged for a custos to assist them, in terms which show that they found the management of their own finances too much for them.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
Before 1888 the clerk of the peace was appointed in a county by the custos rotulorum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
Interesting developments in America’s elect-your-id experiment, as the shining city upon a hill runs up against that age-old political question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2020
Independent policing of the news has a natural appeal, but it raises the question posed in Juvenal’s Satires: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2018
His critics would say that another piece of Latin would be appropriate in view of the Bank’s new powers: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes – Who guards the guards themselves?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2015
The House Week Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From Time Magazine Archive
Of these some had, and still have, this power annexed to other offices which they hold; others had it merely by itself, and were thence named custodes or conservatores pacis.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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