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
In 1834 he was made custos and in 1841 professor of composition in the Academy of Vienna.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 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
As a former custos rotulorum for the county of Wilts, none knows that better than I, sir.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
In the reign of James the First, the custos, Dr. Micklethwaite, put forward certain unheard-of claims and pretensions, which led to a rupture between him and the two societies.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
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
In its single literary flourish, the report prefaced its chronology of the Iran and contra operations with an apt quotation from the 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From Time Magazine Archive
Honorius, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to Brother Francis and the other priors or custodes of the Brothers Minor, greeting and the apostolic benediction.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
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