dispensator
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dispensator
1350–1400; Middle English dispensatour < Medieval Latin dispēnsātor, Latin: manager, steward, equivalent to dispēnsā ( re ) ( see dispense) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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A slave called the dispensator was the manager of this business.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
She is there with Ursus, who goes as before to the miller, a namesake of thy dispensator Demas.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
And to shew, sometimes, what a sovereign dispensator of life he is, and how free he is in all his favours.
From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)
But Vinicius sprang up and called his dispensator.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
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