custos
Americannoun
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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
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
Thomas, called a Celano from a small town in central Italy, was a Franciscan monk who lived in the thirteenth century and was custos of certain convents of his order on the Rhine.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
In a play of Terence, one of the characters, talking of the train of a courtezan, says, “Ducitur familia tota, Vestispicæ, unctor, auri custos, flabelliferæ, sandaligerulæ, Cantrices, cistellatrices, nuncii, renuncii265.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
He was appointed custos rotulorum of Warwickshire, and master of the great wardrobe in 1622, and created baron and viscount Feilding in 1620, and earl of Denbigh on the 14th of September 1622.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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
Let the ministers-general, all the other ministers and the custodes be held by obedience to add nothing to and take nothing from these words.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour
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