custos
Americannoun
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(italics) a custodian.
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a superior in the Franciscan order.
noun
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
We must now close our remarks on the Temple, with a short account of the quarrel with Dr. Micklethwaite, the custos or guardian of the Temple Church.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
Non ipse custos pulchrior invias Egit sub umbras Aemonios greges; Non ipse Apollo notus illis Lege suae meliore cannae.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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
In a play of Terence, one of the characters, talking of the train of a courtezan, says, “Ducitur familia tota, Vestispicæ, unctor, auri custos, flabelliferæ, sandaligerulæ, Cantrices, cistellatrices, nuncii, renuncii265.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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