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
"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 James Payn
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
The custos librorum is a thorough Venetian; talked with fond regret of the splendour of the Republic, and is very angry with Daru for his history.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
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
Thus we hear of a custos palatinae capellae who was in charge of the palace chapel relics, and guarded them in the field; the chief of these custodes was sometimes called the archicapellanus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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