macer
Americannoun
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(in Scotland) an officer who attends the Court of Session and carries out its orders.
noun
Etymology
Origin of macer
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French; Middle French massier. See mace 1, -er 2
Example Sentences
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"They'll sequester me none"; he returned, grimly; "and if Dunsappie the macer tries it I'll have him read out of the church, for I know of him that which makes me able to do it!"
From Nancy Stair A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane
“The great Argyle he gaed before, He gart the cannons and guns to roar, and the very macer cried ‘Cruachan!’
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
While seated at table, the macer of the Council appeared with a warrant charging him to enter the Castle of Blackness within twenty-four hours.
From Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series by William Morison
It always requires to be joined to a substantive, of which it shows the nature or quality—as lectio longa, a long lesson; magnus aper, a great boar; pinguis puer, a fat boy; macer puer, a lean boy.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
He got one glimpse of the sans culottes, appealed again to the De Chenier macer in his ancestry, and flung the flambeau at the first who entered.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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