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
The same year he was appointed custos rotulorum of Cheshire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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 Charles G. Addison
I enquired, finding that the old custos was more inclined to speak of his predecessor than himself.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
"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
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
In its single literary flourish, the report prefaced its chronology of the Iran and contra operations with an apt quotation from the 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From Time Magazine Archive
The frequency with which custodes occur in houses in the diocese of Lincoln and York and their rarity in other dioceses would seem to support the theory of Gilbertine influence.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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