manciple
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of manciple
1150–1200 in sense “slave”; Middle English < Middle French manciple, variant of mancipe < Medieval Latin mancipium, Latin: a possession, slave, originally, ownership, equivalent to mancip-, stem of manceps contractor, agent ( man ( us ) hand + -cep-, combining form of capere to take ( see concept) + -s nominative singular ending) + -ium -ium
Example Sentences
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Enter the amateur, in this case Insurance Investigator Peter Manciple, who knows Devonshire like the back of his hand: he attended public school there, and was dubbed "Mathematics" Manciple by one professor.
From Time Magazine Archive
They all converge on Manciple, who alone seems to have the clues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bacchus, Bacchus! blessed be thy name,That thus canst turn our earnest into game.Worship and thanks be to thy deity.So on this head ye get no more from me.Tell on thy tale, Manciple, I thee pray.”
From Playful Poems by Morley, Henry
The Manciple was an officer who had the care of buying victuals for an Inn of Court—like the Temple.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
A gentil Manciple was there of the Temple, Of whom achatours mighten take ensemple, For to ben wise in bying of vitaille.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
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